The Queen

[Ken Moss]

Her Majesty has certainly been to Rishton as I am just cleaning up a reel of film footage of it, recorded by one of my residents.

It was in 1967.

 

[Greeny]

clearly she has been here twice then.

 

[jaysay]

Seem to think the whole caboodle went up Burnley Rd?

Well it certainly came along Blackburn Road, cuz I was at the top of Henry St. with my mother waving my little flag

 

[jaysay]

clearly she has been here twice then.

Na not Rishton surely, nobody goes to Rishton twice

 

[JIMSLAD]

remember standing at corner of b/burn rd peel st with scouts seemed to be stood ages

 

[cashman]

Na not Rishton surely, nobody goes to Rishton twice

Oh i don't know,the Roebuck n Walmsley were great boozers way back.

 

[mobertol]

Interesting take on Her Maj on the Italian news this evening.

Juxtaposition with Maggie Thatcher -how Lady T wanted to be Queen back then but Her Maj was actually the Iron Lady, quite clever.

 

[walkinman221]

Na not Rishton surely, nobody goes to Rishton twice

Course they do john once in, followed very quickly by once out

 

[jaysay]

Course they do john once in, followed very quickly by once out

Oh come on Dave nobody stops there

 

[alan7554]

yes hm the queen came to rishton and the dunkenhalgh in maybe 1967-1968,the LET brought out a souvenier pape,r still got it at home

 

[cashman]

yes hm the queen came to rishton and the dunkenhalgh in maybe 1967-1968,the LET brought out a souvenier pape,r still got it at home

How come alan? was that the year yeh got n inside loo?

 

[alan7554]

ah the good old outside toilet,we had an old tippler toilet out in the back yard till we had the grant done in 1972,you had to run the sink tap to make it tip over,modern science eh

 

[jaysay]

ah the good old outside toilet,we had an old tippler toilet out in the back yard till we had the grant done in 1972,you had to run the sink tap to make it tip over,modern science eh

Its all right for you alan, when I was a happyrentice, I used to have to dig them out when we were doing grant jobs

 

[Lost in Cornwall]

When the Queen came through Clayton in 1967 we were taken from All Saints to stand along Blackburn Road with red, white and blue balloons. We were made to stand in order but by the time she came we'd moved round and half the balloons had burst so I'm not sure the effect was quite what it was supposed to be.