I'm a Radcliffe lad and I went to school in Bolton, Thornleigh to be precise. I won't regale you with the execrable Thornleigh school song. 😩 Mention of Affetside reminded me of my very favourite photo of Mrs Steve which I took there before we were married, so over 40 years ago. 😢

I was in the same class as Bernard Carney, who moved to Perth in Australia 45 years ago and never came home. I'm still in touch with him and owe him an email. I've even been to his house! He's made his living as a kind of folk-inspired singer-songwriter and very good he is too. Though he's a Bury lad he may know a song or two about Bolton. I'll ask him!