NO doubt you recall my recent story of Owd Malley's Toffee (made in Farnworth by the Entwistle family) and I have now heard from Mrs Evelyn Hardman, of Lostock Lane, Lostock, who tells me that May Entwistle was her mother's sister. "I well remember Auntie May and Uncle Jim making the golden coloured mint toffee.

"It was boiled in a big pan on the kitchen stove, and then poured out onto large cast iron table and cut into sections with a large hand-held cutter, and then wrapped individually by my aunt.

"Many is the time I recall being allowed to wrap the lovely, golden, shiny blocks of mint toffee for my own consumption.

"The family came from Farnworth. Jim did have a sister called Sally, but I am sure there was no connection with Malley Entwistle (if you recall, in my story of January 26, there was a suggestion that someone called Malley Entwistle, who lived in Edgworth, may have been a relative).

"Auntie May died in 1988, and Jim several years earlier. He worked at the Farnworth Labour Exchange, King Street. They had two sons, Bill, the elder, died in 1998, and Jimmy, the younger son, still lives in Bolton."

I also received a call from MrJohn Grant, of Sterling Drive, Farnworth, who tells me that when his wife Margaret (nee Watson), as a child, lived just off Albert Road, Farnworth, she used to go to Entwistle's, next door to the White Hart pub, and buy Owd Malley's Toffee at 2d a block. "It was wrapped in white paper with blue on it," he says.