THE goalkeeper always wore a flat cap in the time when this picture of the old Vulcan Village football team was taken, back in the 1930s. And the no-nonsense committee men were to be found wearing similar headgear, or floppy trilbies, together with full, dark-serge suits, waistcoats and gold watch chains.

Soccer pictures, and shots of old school classes, seem to be food and drink to fans of this page, who love to pick out an old relative or bygone friend from among the line-ups. Here’s good luck to you!

This picture (featuring folk with surnames like Slobum, Prockley and Whamond, still peculiar to the Earlestown district) was kindly forwarded by reader Hugh Carey (82) of Roscoe Avenue, Newton-le-Willows. The shot was found among the effects of his late wife, Mary, who died in March.