[keith]

as a hgv driver in the seventies I remember driving into blythes yard to load a manchester liners container and told to report to the yard forman who turned out to be joe slattery ex accrington stanley footballer an old friend from wnen we both worked at the NBC joe at the coke works the job he took after the football and I was a tipper driver on the transport we got made redundant together he went to blythes I went to thomas gilmartins transport and then gilbraiths among the drivers at blythes at that time jimmy hargreaves and a lad from rishton where I lived at that time big jim loynds I believe jim had to finish driving through bad health but blythes kept him on as a forklift driver