WITH reference to the recent death of Phoebe Hesketh. In the early 50s I was secretary of a men's Sunday afternoon class, with a membership of 40, in Trinity Methodist Church, Tonge Fold.
I had the audacity to invite Phoebe Hesketh to address us. She said she had never addressed an all-male group, but would come, with some trepidation.
She kept us spellbound, and gave her services free.
Her poem The Truant is well worth reading at a time when we are pre-occupied with school truancy.
W Glyn Jones
Blenheim Road
Bolton
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