WHEN this photograph of St. Thomas's, Halliwell, CE football team in 1951 appeared on June 14, the sender, Cyril Dean, now of Suffolk, asked if anyone could name them.

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"The feedback was great", he tells me, with telephone calls, e-mails, letters "and I have made contact with people not in the photograph I have not heard from for 45 years."

One of the people who contacted him was Joan Heaton, and she names them as: Teachers, Mr Bonsey and Mr James. Boys, back row from left: A. Scholes, A. Otterley, F. Warburton, C. Dean, N. Layland, R. Thompson.

Front row: C. Ward, D. Wright, G. Heaton, C. Tolliday, M. Holt.

"The captain was my late husband Gordon Heaton," she writes, "who was also a good cricketer and pro'd for Roe Green."