IT'S 70 years since Edith Martin was a schoolgirl at the Bag Lane School in Coal Pit Lane, Atherton. It seems like only yesterday!

The memories came flooding back with this photograph of her 1930 class.

And Edith, now 81, of Lambeth Street, Atherton, has been able to name most of the youngsters from the days when she was Edith Whittle.

Back row, left to right: Albert Fullelove, Danny Butterworth, Danny Aldred, James Walter Aldred, Harold Schofield, Harold Pearson, Head Teacher Miss Smith.

Third row: Bertha Critchley, Nancy Whittingham, Edith Cook, Irena Axon, Annie Morris, Edith Whittle, May Bottomley, Phylis Sankey, ?

Second row: Annie Gregory, Jimmy Green, Vivian Houghton, Florence Wardle, ? Lythgoe, Nellie Smith, Minnie Woodward, Cliff Doyle, Norman Whittle.

Front row: Frank Fairhurst, George Aldred, Albert Aldred, ? Peacock, Tommy Haskins, Charlie Hewitt, Tommy Fairhurst.

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.