'Meet the Townley's Terrors, the football team to strike fear into the heart of many a World Cup side', said the caption when this picture appeared in 1974. The team was made up of nurses from Bolton District General Hospital (now the Royal Bolton, of course), and they were in training for a comedy match against local ambulancemen at the hospital.
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