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Granddad Jack (John)  Critchley in Blackpool 1930s
Granddad Jack (John) Critchley in Blackpool 1930s
Photo: John A Hankin
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Looking very dapper on holiday in Blackpool in the 1930s. John played Rugby League for Broughton Rangers (and won the Lancashire Cup in 1920)and Leigh. He married Florence Molyneux of Linney St Scholes in 1924 and had one daughter Doreen, my mother, who married Alan Hankin in 1947. They lived in Golborne St, Scholes until the area was tragically demolished in the late 60s. We moved out in 1955 to live in Scholefield Lane when I was seven. Granddad died in June 1973 and Grandma

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