IT did not take long for the letters and telephone calls to start coming in when I published a "mystery" picture showing the cast of Aladdin.

There was nothing on the back of the print to identify the cast, but I can now tell you that it was one of the all-male pantomimes produced with great success at St Augustine's, Tonge Moor, to raise money for church funds.

The picture, from 1960 or 1961, brought back many memories for Mr Alan Hesford of Bank Top Grove, Bolton, -- a member of the "girls' chorus."

"It ran for a week every year and it was always full," he said.

And he remembers members of the cast popping into the nearby Starkie Arms -- still dressed in full female attire. The pantos were held from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s in the former St Augustine's Parochial Hall and then transferred until the 1970s to Chorley Old Road Methodists.

Mrs Dorothy Nowell (nee Gaskell), who used to live at Hall i'th'Wood, says: "They were brilliant."

Thanks to everybody else who got in touch about these much-loved pantomimes.

Various people have given me some of the names of those involved including Norman Yates, David Schofield, Albert Barton, Peter Pemrick, Howard Anderson and David Merrill. Local councillor Frank White was another of those on the picture.