HOW many of our Looking Back readers were pupils at Chalfont Street School?

This week we are appealing to former students to get in touch so we can help you reunite and enjoy monthly get-togethers with other former pupils.

Henry Busby and his wife, Kathleen, organise monthly meetings at Astley Bridge Conservative Club in Bolton — on the third Wednesday of every month — where former pupils get together, enjoy a chat about the old days and a coffee and biscuits.

It is a great opportunity, says Henry, for people to meet up and enjoy talking about the good old days enjoyed at the little school that has since been demolished.

Although Henry and Kathleen were both pupils at the school 91-year-old Henry says he did not know 87-year-old Kathleen at the time and the pair only met some time later through church when they were both in the choir.

They sang together at St George's Road Congregational Church and have been married for 65 years.

Sadly many of the members of their little group who meet monthly have now died and Henry is keen to get newer members, regardless of when they attended Chalfont Street School.

Reader Frank Punchaby was a pupil at Chalfont Street School in the 1930s and recalled numerous friends including Alan hall, Joan Wilshaw, Yvonne Foster, Minnie Firth, Joan Charnley, Vera Gandy and Betty Cotton — perhaps some of these will read Looking Back and get in touch wonders Henry.

Rene Crowshaw, Dennis Grundy, Syd Cox, Kenneth Brownlow, Alan Whitehead, Jack Hunter, Alan Hall, Herbert Adamson and Alan Winterbottom were just a handful of the other names that Frank recalled in a recent Looking Back article.

Now Henry is hoping Frank and some of his former pals will get in touch and swell the monthly meetings of the little group.

Did you attend Chalfont Street School and would you enjoy reminiscing about old times with other people who share your past?

If so do get in touch with Gayle McBain at The Bolton News who will put you in touch. Ring Gayle on 01204 537269 or email gayle.mcbain@nqnw.co.uk for more information.