A delightful booklet comes my way from Ernie Grundy of Walkden.
Ernie has produced a few booklets detailing his life, the earliest of which describe his years spent at Little Hulton, where he was born in 1920.
Here is a taster, referring, I would think, to the Whit Walks:"In the 20s and early 30s, the social life was largely centred on the church, school, pubs and cinemas, so Peel church Walking Day was a big event with nearly all the unpartakers lining the route of the procession and the pub beer-drinkers leaving their ale for five minutes or so, once they heard the band, to slip their children a penny as they passed the pub."
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