THIS picture we featured last week from a 0-0 draw with Blackpool in March 1962 caught the attention of reader Ian Makin as the little boy on the right was him.

Now aged 65 and living in Lower Darwen, and a season ticket holder at the Macron, he got in touch to share his memories.

He said: “I would have been 10 at the time and my father, Roland, who turned 95 last week, did the commentaries for hospital radio for 20 years.

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I used to stand in the Manchester Road paddock where it meets the Embankment End so he could keep an eye on me from the commentary box. I’ve never seen that picture before, it was a big surprise when I saw it.”