MY recent mention of Ken (‘Curly’) Harrison, writing in to me from his home in America, had Brenda Makin thumbing through her collection of old school photographs.
And there was Ken, seated second from right on the grass in the front row of this classroom shot at Haydock Secondary Modern School. He’s the lad wirth the crop of curly hair.
“And he could be a bit of an amusing devil, as well!” she reports.
Brenda (formerly Swift) from Park Street, Haydock, includes in the picture many wellknown Yick survivors who will have passed into the grandparent stage.
And she amazingly recalls them well, from when the picture Curly was a bit of a devil back then was taken in the mid 1940s.
They are; Back (left to right): Stanley Gore, Jean Clapham, Olive Edwards, Jean Harrison, Margaret Travis, Barbara Powell, Audrey Cargill, Brenda Swift, Freda Knowles, Sheila Foster, Gordon Mather.
Third row up: Harold Fletcher, Stanley Spears, Roy Greenall, Ron Taylor, Ron Stockley, Tom Tattersall, Cliff Birkett, Eric Westhead, George Greenall, Ronald Wright, Eric Fairclough.
Second row: Dorothy Potter, Margaret Seddon, Mavis Jones, May Yates, Eileen Lowe, Agnes Winstanley, Joyce Whittle, Edna Lucas,Marjorie Birkett, Doris Taylor, Dorothy Holmes.
Front: Gordon Berry, Ray Smith , Roy Harrison, Ken (Curly) Harrison) Joseph Roscoe.
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