THESE proud pupils were photographed at St Paul's, Astley Bridge, in 1949, after they passed the 11 plus examination.
Mr Ray Yates of Belmont Road, Bolton - that's him second from the right on the middle row - tells me that they all went on to Bolton School, Bolton County Grammar or Canon Slade.
"It was quite a good pass rate in a class of about 35," Mr Yates remembers.
"I still keep in contact with one or two of them."
Mr Yates went on to become a physics teacher at Smithills Grammar, the Derby School at Bury and the Queen Elizabeth school in Middleton.
The most famous member of the class - television gardening expert Roy Lancaster - is not on the picture because he failed the 11-plus and went to Castle Hill.
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