LOOKING through The Journal last week, I couldn't help smile at the article by Brian Gomm about the book which Dennis Sweeney has written on the Lancashire railways, especially the Parsonage Colliery.

Yes, I remember it well. As a girl working at J&J Hayes' cotton mill we used to go for a little walk in our dinner hour and crossed over the line and down the underground.

There we met the boys who were on the dole and had a chat to them. Happy days, never to return.

I wonder if there are any operatives still living who can recall those days?

Mrs W.Foster

Atherton Road

Hindley Green

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