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Definately Alan Dakin.

did alan dakin live in downall green road

On second thoughts I think Brian was working at Heinz.

For sure Alan Dakin and Frank Carter worked at Gullick Dobson through the 80,s and 90,s and a Brain Holmes aawell but not to sure if that same one and it certainly looks to have been taken at Southport.
Frank was still working there into year 2000

At that time Alan Dakin was living near to our family in Bluebell Avenue, Beech Hill. Last I heard of Alan he and his wife were steward/stewardess of a golf club in Ashton in Makerfield

the lad in the middle and on the right look loike twins

Alan and Frank are still around, in fact Frank is sat next to me as I type this!!!

Hi Brian B and Frank, I think I warned you Frank I would find a few photos - there may be one or two more somewhere - watch out. Alan and Frank "twins"! - I bet that made you smile.

Thanks for the info" derekB if I'm right I know you from the Wellfield days.

Thank you for the info' Jim Holding, what a strange coincidence - i took this photo and shortly after worked at Gullicks for a very brief period.

Hi Keith. Assuming you are Jack Bowen's son you probably do know me from the Wellfield days. My surname is Bond and for years my dad was one of the Beech Hill beat bobbies.

keith,,,ref derekb.s last comment,that makes you crispin keith and our paths are crossing once again,,,curios and curioser said the white rabbit,,,,small world...

Spot on Derek, I last saw you at the Buffet bar at the Wellfield, which must be nearly 50 years ago - how are you?

You've also got me Jim, "crispinkeith" I am, as you say it's a small world.

saw alan at under a wigan rugby game earlier this year he also attended the class reunion afew years back

Hi Keith - I'm fine thanks, or as the old saying goes "Apart from old age and poverty". Have lived in Standish since 1976 and was discussing this correspondence over a drink last night with Roy Huxley, who tells me he knows you well.

Good to hear from you Derek, please give my best wishes to Roy. I well remember your dad and the "Dr Who" box at the corner of the Wellfield Car park. I'm still waiting to turn those old super 8 cine films into DVD's when i do I might be able to post stills from those far away days in the pub.

Hi Keith, you probably don't remember me.I go back to Cheltenham aveLower ince where my Tommy Foster andfamily lived across road.I used to stay there with my cousins Tom Edie and betty.I remember a big wooden fence at the bottom of your garden as the railway ran behind.Did'nt stop us climbing it though.Over sixty years ago that.

Hi David, thank you for posting your comment, it rekindled my earliest memory of Cheltenham Avenue and especially Tom and Betty Foster (I have posted a photo of them together with myself and my sister) but also of the "fence" you mention which I think were probably railway sleepers . Best wishes Keith