IT seems clog dancer Henry Whitaker, below, once stepped out on a completely different field.

For we’ve heard he was also a trainer for the Edge End Evening Institute football team in the 1940s.

Our story last week, about the cotton worker, who danced into his 80s and appeared in TV soap Coronation Street, jogged some memories among some Nelson folk.

He lived only 100 yards away from the school playing fields in Hibson Road.

The team was run by a Mr Halstead, although the woodwork teacher Mr Crossley was the main man behind it.

Anyone wanting to be a player, however, had to register as students at the institute and attend evening lessons.

The story goes that in the first half of the decade most of the players were called up into the forces, but whenever they came home on leave, the new players drafted in would stand aside to let them have a game.

The team was, however, disbanded following a row between Mr Crossley and a referee, who reported him to the Lancashire FA — you never questioned a decision in those days!