Huncoat Youth Club

[Margaret Pilkington]

Taddy, you are right....Pilkington is my married name. My maiden name was Duxbury......and if you are 67 then it is likely that you would have been in the same year as me at Woodnook.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Oh, yes and we lived up on top of Riley's Hill in Accrington.

[taddy]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Oh, yes and we lived up on top of Riley's Hill in Accrington.

Although I have put my remembering head on, I'm afraid I can't recall a Margaret Duxbury, the name Mick Duxbury strikes a long forgotten cord in the old subconscious and as for Riley's hill I am afraid that you will have to explain where that is as I have never heard of it; but then again I do come from Huncoat, where if anyone wants to leave they have to obtain the key from the watchman and be home before the clock strikes midnight,.

You say that you have a good memory for names, My moniker is Mick Hadfield. my sister Linda also went to Woodnook but she is two years younger than me but you may remember her.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes, the name rings a bell....and Linda too.
Riley's Hill is near Priestley Clough.....where we used to do Cross Country runs.....Bullough Park is that way too.

[taddy]

Cross country runs with Milton Suthers, Oh the pain but I still reckon he was a good teacher, P.E. and maths, shame there arn't more like him today.
Past my bedtime, Ah well, stay happy, Yours Taddy.

[Margaret Pilkington]

He always scared me to death......maths was my worst nightmare.
Mr Allen was headmaster. Miss Croston for Art, Mrs Thompson for RI. Mr Gale was form teacher...he was a big chap who would squeeze himself into a little White Renault.
It was Mrs Whittaker who took the girls on those cross country runs, up past Nelson's farm.....she used to watch through Binocs to see who,was smoking on the way back......smoke?
It took me all my time to run and breathe!

[cashman]

Originally Posted by ossy kid

Taddy, the only "old" person I can remember at the youth club was Ronnie Howland who was also a teacher at the tech up Ossy. There are some photo's on here if you search back through the archives. Incidentally we had a great football team there in the late 50s.

Am i getting confused here? Thought Ronnie was the son, n Alan Howland the teacher? DtheP will know fer sure if he reads this.

[DtheP47]

Ol t'was Ronnie Howland who taught us woodwork.. Memories ..the smell of that skanky encrusted glue pot boiling in the workshop I am sure there were horses hooves in there.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by DtheP47

Ol t'was Ronnie Howland who taught us woodwork.. Memories ..the smell of that skanky encrusted glue pot boiling in the workshop I am sure there were horses hooves in there.

Cheers D, twas simpleton here getting confused. He once split me head open hurling a bit of 3x2 at me fer talking, a real turd.

[DtheP47]

Originally Posted by cashman

Cheers D, twas simpleton here getting confused. He once split me head open hurling a bit of 3x2 at me fer talking, a real turd.

Yes Ol he was sadistic twot ...knuckled me once when we were down at St Mary's Bay camp, left a fair sized bruise when me and Pete Morrow got caught climbing back in though the dorm window after being out errr "calling on" some cockney girls in another hut.His breath stunk of booze n fags... Worse that that skanky glue pot.

[taddy]

I have copied a photograph of the Woodnook football team in the 1961/62 season and I am going to ask my good lady,(or even the wife),, if she will take it into the accy observer office on friday when she is down in the big city shopping. Hopefully they will print it in the paper the following week,(if of course that is how it works).
Stay happy as ever, Yours Taddy.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Taddy, I am sure the Accrington Museum in the Arndale would also like a copy.

[taddy]

Originally Posted by ossy kid

Taddy, the only "old" person I can remember at the youth club was Ronnie Howland who was also a teacher at the tech up Ossy. There are some photo's on here if you search back through the archives. Incidentally we had a great football team there in the late 50s.

Hello ossy kid, could you please give me some advise as to how to access the archives as you so kindly suggested

I am not really genned up on Bill Gates infernal machine yet. Many thanks, Taddy.

[taddy]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Taddy, I am sure the Accrington Museum in the Arndale would also like a copy.

Good thinking Margaret, I will print out another copy.

[ossy kid]

In the search section at the top of the page put in Huncoat youth club and see what you get.