[jenny creasey]

I remember Ernie lee and John Duffy on the "Deck", and a guy we called Ernie Glasses also Alan Sutcliffe. I don't recall t being grammer school boys - quite the reverse, it was fast and dangerous types that my mother certainly would not approve of, and who I had to dream up complex "excuses" for going past the "deck", to suss out who was hanging out there. There was also an older man called Arnold, who had a cottage up near Spire Farm at the top of the "green" part of Sandy Lane. This cottage had a stone carving dating from the 1600's and was reputedly where Oliver Cromwell once stayed. Arnold was famous for riotous parties, with "guests" from the visiting West Indies cricketers, who first introduced us to illicit smoking substances! Arnold also rented a house at the bottom end of Burnley Rd, near the then English Electric showrooms in Abbey St(now Age Uk! - Does anyone else recall Arnold? and the parties?....