I HAVE just been reading about Clarendon Street School and Bobby Heywood Park in Bolton. I went to the school in 1946 until 1955. We had our games day on the park. In those days the park was cinders and there was no railings round the park, as they had been pulled down for the war. When they closed the railway they pulled the ground back and you could see the top of the tunnels. They opened the top of the tunnels and filled them in. When we had a football match the park keeper, who lived in the park house, put the posts up for the match and the cricket pitch was a slab of concrete in the middle of the park. Every Sunday afternoon there was a football match with the local lads, about 24 on each side, and you were lucky if you got a kick. Binn’s coaches also had a office on Moor Lane.

Bill Brayford Vale House Close Whalley Clitheroe