[Margaret Pilkington]

It was always ascension day......I never got to go on them either.......didn't get to go on school trips...there wasn't the money available for such luxuries.(I only ever went on one school trip - to Chester. My gran paid....but one of the boys threw my school beret in the river Dee.......he threw it like a frisbee. My Ma was none too pleased at having to buy me a new one)
I did envy the children who were able to go though.......I used to scan the skies on the day of their flight and imagine what they would be seeing from 'up there'.......while I was bound to terra firma.