WEST End Youth Club played a big part in the lives of Blackburn’s teenagers over many years.

Today, we bring you a photograph from the club from almost 60 years ago. It shows members who staged the operetta, the Tyrolean Maid, at St Anne’s Church hall, in January 1949.

Thanks to Tom Gavin, who had the picture in his album, we can also name most of them.

On the back row, from left, are F Lynch, Tom, S Lavin, T Billington, S Charnley, J Charnock and K Mooney. In the middle are V Grimshaw, ?, M Hutchinson, R Adamson, M Fielding, A Southworth and P Henshaw. At the front are D Livesey, C Mulcahey, Miss Robinson, ? and B Smith.

Inside Clarabel the cow, on the left, were V Grimshaw and D Livesey!