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Is there any one out there who can remember anything about Nori, mid to late 50s, in the days of;- Jack Starkie, Thurston Smith,Mick Hill, John Buckley, Alf Weaver, Harry Rostron, Geoffrey McAlpine, Tom Lund, Peter Gribbons, to name a few of the 500 + Lance T.

Thanks,Now I can sleep at night, The Lamb it was. Oh since 1959

There was/is a small pub on Whalley Road Clayton. Situated near Sparth Road. I spent many an hour in there, dominoes, darts, spud pie, with John Laing. Could someone give me any information of one or better still both. Lance

Late comer Laura Jackson would you please contact me Remembering the Jacksons at High Riley Lance

I know I'm {a lot } late, but you know........:egged: I used to stay at the farm when my Aunty Glady's [ ne Proctor] lived there. She then moved down the lane a bit and lived in [one] of the cottages. What has happenrd to 'Plantation Mill'

The modern use of mines fI think is for quarries, No one seems to quarry anymore, they open cast mine. I think the term was coined by our American cousins.

I have just been wandering through www.www.webbaviation.co.uk There is a srction on Accrington; Here are a couple of photographs of an abandond mine on top of Moleside. One is noted, the other one is in a photograph where the pilot/photographer says he was looking for evidence of where the PALS...

Did he live on Balmoral Road?

Harrison Birtwistle (Don't you dare call him Harry} lived in Huncoat with his parents. He failed at teaching me to lay clarinet, I think I got him a little interested in Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmon, he enjoyed their counterpoint playing. He was a member of one of the bands which used to march...

I worked with Thurston in the mid to late 50s. He had a motor bike with a side car made out of a wooden crate. He made machines to make brick propellers for model aeroplanes, and also one to make brick buttons, during the war, the ones you had to take off your pants befor they were washed. He...

There should be in the archives of the Observer an article on this theme, published around the time the film came out

Which stall did he have in the Marlet Hall?

The Proctor family worked Huncoat Hall in WWII, and after. Is there any threads on them? Any family information on the Jacksons from High Riley Farm? While on farms and farmers, 'Hillock Farm', at the bottom of the Coppice. We used to sledge in a field below, closer to Accy Stanley.