[Margaret Pilkington]

Oh Grammarlad....that makes us almost related. I would imagine the the clough and the lodges were your playgrounds too.
I do not know the people you mention....other than Les Rooks and I only know him from being on here...we have never met.

You are just ten years older than me.....a generation.

I have no spare enthusiasm for the town....it has not been well looked after.
Too much time and money has been spent on top dressing, rather than on the soil. Vanity projects rather than tackling the decline....and excusing inactivity by telling us it is the same everywhere.
What my dear old Ma would call 'fur coat and no knickers' kind of a town.
No....I can think of very little to recommend it(other than what was mentioned in my earlier post).
If I were younger, I would up sticks.