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Walking day Festival Year 1951   (1)
Walking day Festival Year 1951 (1)
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 35582
Postcard of the Sunday School walking day in 1951

Comment by: Irene Roberts on 31st January 2025 at 15:46

I remember that church and have a dvd of a wedding there in the 1930s, taken from a cine-film. How strange to see Walthew Lane with setts instead of tarmac!

Comment by: B. on 1st February 2025 at 06:43

Irene, I think this was taken in Peel Street, at the side of the church.

Comment by: Irene Roberts on 1st February 2025 at 12:38

B, thankyou, and you're probably right, as that's where they would have sorted out the order of procession. But I think Walthew Lane WAS cobbled at one time, as were most of the main roads which most of us only recall being covered in tarmac; a lot of the side streets remained cobbled. It was the same in Ince, where I lived as a child.

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