CLIFF Heyes of Bolton Road, Edgworth, has put me right on the caption to the Looking Back photograph which referred to musical appreciation events in the Central Library Lecture Theatre in 1951.
He attended all the sessions which featured the Laurance Turner String Quartet and knows that Mr Turner was the musician standing fourth from left in the photograph - not the one seated, as suggested at the time.
Mr Heyes writes: "The seated figure looks to me to be the late Sir Malcolm Sargent, the world-famous conductor also known affectionately as 'Flash Harry' due to his immaculate appearance on the platform and his habit of always having a white carnation in his lapel."
Mr Heyes tells me that he was given the concert tickets by Frank Milner, the headmaster at Castle Hill School, who gave him the opportunity of learning to play the violin when he was 12.
"For that I shall always be grateful - Mr Milner was a good motivator and I progressed to become leader of the Bolton Youth Orchestra in 1957."
Mr Heyes says he thinks it would have pleased Mr Milner to know that he passed on his love of the violin and classical music to his daughter, who became a much more proficient violinist than he was.
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