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SELINA HAYES SELINA HAYES
9:47am Fri 25 Apr 08
I have organised a reunion for Westhoughton High School Class of 98, to be held on Saturday, June 14, at Bar Baa in Wigan from 7.30pm.

PETER STREET PETER STREET
9:10am Fri 11 Apr 08
The enclosed photograph is of the Bolton Boys team of (possibly) 1963, which was made up of boys from the various Bolton schools and played in the Mid Lancashire League.

WENDY JANE WALCOTT (nee WRIGLEY) of Flat 7, 32 Summer Hill, Totterdown, Bristol, BS4 3BE
9:04am Wednesday 9th April 2008
I am desperately trying to trace an old friend from the 1960s who I knew when I lived in Polefield, Prestwich, and who can provide me with important information.

IRENE MARTHA COYLE of Doncaster
9:02am Wednesday 9th April 2008
My grandparents Thomas Leach and Margaret (nee Melling) lived on Bolton Road, Westhoughton, until 1954.
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TINA EATON (nee HARWOOD) of 34 Kimberly Drive, Crownhill, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 5WA
8:57am Wednesday 9th April 2008
My parents are from Bolton but they brought me up in Africa, and since returning to England I live in Plymouth, Devon.

WENDY MORRIS (nee BUTTFIELD) of 8 Abbots View, Buckshaft, Cinderford, Gloucestershire, GL14 3EG
8:30am Friday 14th March 2008
I am trying to trace descendants of my father's brother, Albert Buttfield, (known as George), who was born in 1901 in Chatham, Kent, settled in Bolton in the mid-20s and died in 1961.

PAULINE HOEY (a McGee granddaughter) of 26 Roeburn Drive, Grosvenor Park, Morecambe, LA3 3RY
8:27am Friday 14th March 2008
My mother was Myra Barnes (b 1919) and she married Bert Eckersley.

MONICA O'HARA-KEETON c/o Robert Hale Ltd, Clerkenwell House, Clerkenwell Green, London, EC1R 0HT
8:17am Friday 14th March 2008
Like pretty well everyone else in the country, I'm deeply into family research, and one half of my family has roots in Bolton.

MISS S A BRADSHAW (Shirley/Biddy) of 13a Gillett Street, Preston, PR I 5HX
10:35am Thursday 28th February 2008
Were you one of the Park School Girls' who were the last intake to the school on Moor Park Avenue, Preston, Lancs?

DAVID LOCKYER
10:32am Thursday 28th February 2008
RAF St Eval was situated about nine miles from Newquay, Cornwall.

CHARLES MILLER of Sterndale Avenue, Standish, and JOHN LEE of Thornhill Road, Chorley
10:27am Thursday 28th February 2008
We are interested in contacting some school friends who were with us in Form 4A at the former Preston Catholic College in 1954-1955.

BARRY HUTCHINSON from Manchester BARRY HUTCHINSON from Manchester
9:00am Fri 25 Jan 08
I would like to contact anyone who was part of the Bolton bike/rock scene back in the 1980s.

JOHN MEADOWCROFT, Secretary, Sea Training School/College (Gravesend) Association, 15 Springbok Cottages, Alford, Surrey, GU6 8HT
8:56am Friday 25th January 2008
I wish to bring to the attention of your readers who are ex merchant seamen and attended the Sea Training School/College Gravesend.

JOHN BATTYE of 32 Rhodes Street, Hightown, Castleford, West Yorkshire, WF10 5LL
8:53am Friday 25th January 2008
Each year the Lancs and Yorks Historical Society organise pilgrimages to the Battlefields of the First World War.

DAVID FAIRHURST of 61 Wetherby Way, Stratford-upon-Avon, CV37 9LU
8:51am Friday 25th January 2008
I am researching the career of Joe McGee, stage name Joe Crosbie.

CHRISTINE VAN TUIL (nee FINCH), of Losweg 21, 5663 AR Geldrop, Holland
11:05am Thursday 17th January 2008
I used to live in Warwick Road, Atherton, and attended Hesketh Fletcher School from 1974-1976 or 1977, where my nickname was Fudge.

ROGER GREEN (a Royal Mall postman) of Midlands Special Hand Stamp Centre, Royal Mail Birmingham, St Stephens Street, Birmingham, B6 4AAROGER GREEN (a Royal Mall postman) of Midlands Special Hand Stamp Centre, Royal Mail Birmingham, St Stephens Street, Birmingham, B6 4AA
8:20am Fri 11 Jan 08
has launched a world-wide search for former telegrams boys to keep alive memories of a bygone era. A s a former messenger boy he has set up a website and message board to record stories and memories from old telegram boys around the world, and in just a month has had almost 100 messengers sign up to the site from across the UK as well as New Zealand, Thailand, Los Angeles and Spain.

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