THE greatest delight in churning out my weekly dose of nostalgia lies in all the feedback, from far and wide, attracted by Memory Lane correspondence and flashback photos appearing on this ancient page.

A message from Olive B. Scott of Red Bank Road, Bispham, Blackpool, is typical of that welcome response.

She writes: "As one of the survivors of the 1938 class at Jaggers School, Haydock, (featured December 27) I am writing to say how delighted I was to see the picture and to read all the names of my fellow pupils in Mr Hughes's class".

Official name of that little seat of learning is Richard Evans junior school, but to this day it is known as Jaggers, in honour of its first headmaster, way back in Victorian times.

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Olive vividly remembers all her classmates from immediate before the 1939-45 world war ... "and can conjure them up in wonderful nostalgic memory". She's also pretty sure that the one pupil listed as unknown on the look-back picture was Margaret Heaton who lived in Park Street, close to St Mark's Church.

Olive adds: "By the way, my name then was Olive Garbage, not Gabbage (the name submitted with the picture from Jaggers old boys Ron Welding and Jackie Leather).

"This was long before our vocabulary was polluted by Americanisms and before the advent of GIs in the 1940s", she explains. As a child, her unusual surname prompted no adverse comment.

"My sister Elsie still lives in Haydock", Olive signs off, "and I was brought up in West End Road, opposite Nevin's shop and about 150 yards from Jaggers school".

H MANY thanks, Olive, for that interesting contribution and for the generous compliment you paid to my weekly page.