REMEMBER WHEN: Lostock school memories

Kath Capper, nee Moore, attended Manchester Road Infant School and Lostock Gralam CE School in the 1950s and '60s.

Pictured in the infant school picture, back row from left, are, Eric Findlay, Pauline Williams, Martin Miles, Margaret Fortune, David Nicholls, Susan Rimmer, Paul Blundell, Rosalind Lewis and Jennifer Law.

In the next row, from left, are Phillip Sims, Andrew Fuller, Robert Venables, Brian Spencer, Stephen Kinsey, Peter Smith, Ian Birtles and Eric Kettle.

Pictured in the next row, from left, are Gillian Mornberg, Barbara Lapworth, Kathryn Moore, Marilyn Lapworth, Kathleen Johnson, Denise, Elizabeth, Yvonne Dalton and Susan Beckett.

On the front row, from left, are Peter Rauce, Barry Simpson, Dennis Caldwell, Graham Curbishley, Nigel Yoxall, Christopher Hodgkinson and Ian Woodward.

Kath thinks this picture was taken in July 1958.

The headmistress at the school was Miss Buckley and the teachers on the picture were Miss Dean and Mrs Robinson.

The Lostock Gralam CE School includes, back row from left, Graham Curbishley, Charles Ostapski, Christopher Hodgkinson, Denise Turner, Shirley Lawton, Fay, Graham Curbishley and John Houghton.

Pictured in the next row, from left, are Eric Findlay, David Nicholls, Hilary Dudley, Pauline Williams, Margaret Fortune, Susan Rimmer, Kathryn Moore, Martin Miles and Paul Blundell.

Included on the next row, from left, are Robert Venables, Lyn Hinds, Shirley Bell, Janice Dewsbury, Rosalind Lewis, Kathleen Johnson, Barry Simpson, Ian Woodward and Peter Smith.

Front row, from left, are Nigel Yoxall, Kenneth Brooks, Judith Bell, Marilyn Lapworth, Yvonne Dalton, Mr Treasure, Gillian Mornberg, Pauline Curbishley, Barbara Lapworth, Peter Rance and Ian Birtles.

This picture was taken in the summer of 1960 or 1961.

The headteacher was Mr Roberts, who Kath described as a wonderful teacher but very strict, and she remembers dinner ladies Miss Bramhall and Mrs Dalton and the playground assistant Mrs Woodward.