[Margaret Pilkington]

I have lived in Clayton all my married life (58 years in October) but I cannot for the life of me remember it being called anything but ‘the top club’.
It has always intrigued me that there was such rivalry between ‘top Enders’ add ‘bottom Enders’.

My late mother in law lived in Henry Street and when the homes were being demolished for the motorway, she was moved into a flat near the Forts Arms.
She was mortified because that would make her a ‘bottom Enders’.
I don’t think she ever got over it and she did not like living there, but she had no choice.