ANYBODY who has ever been in the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, will know that it takes some filling. So how about this for a banquet?
In August, 1937, some 600 employees of Messrs John Ainscow & Co Ltd, Beehive Mill, Lostock, all sat down for a meal in the famous old dance hall.
Pauline Lord of Horwich tells me that her late mother-in-law, Amelia Lord, was a creeler at the mill between 1934 and 1940.
She and her husband found this unusual photograph - the Winter Gardens has surely accommodated more dancers than diners over the years - among Amelia's effects.
A little detective work turned up the other picture, taken on Horwich LMS station, which appeared in the Horwich Journal the week afterwards.
They were photographed on their way to "the big picnic" in Blackpool.
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