FROM 1924 to 1928 I lived in Dene Bank, Bradshaw -- with views over the Bradshaw Cricket Ground and Affetside. I attended Bradshaw School.

From those days a few lines of 'verse' have lingered in my mind, and I would like to know if any of your readers can search their memories and complete the story.

It goes as follows:

He shouted, "Hey lads, can you fight?"

"No, we ain't fought yet."

"Well, pull yourselves together and we'll muster up a set. We'll lay our clogs about 'em and meck 'em gawp and stare. We'll tell 'em straight. They'll ha' 't feight if they come Turton Fair."

Turton, I seem to remember, was about half way between Bradshaw and Bolton.

Making this up is well beyond my powers. Does it ring a bell anywhere?

W F G Crozier

Hoylake Crescent

Ickenham

Middlesex