THERAPY: Re: The pictures of Wood Street Celebration Party. Like most children in Wood Street, I attended the Grafton Road and Woodhouse Schools.

If this is of any help I enclose the names of a few of the people who lived in Wood Street at that time.

Most of the houses did not have electric power and still had outside toilets and wash houses.

The first job on cold winters' days was to defrost the old lead pipes without bursting them.

The next priority was lighting the boiler and stoking it up for hot water.

The characters in and around this area; well, ITV's Coronation Street had nothing on them. It was also a very friendly neighbourhood as well.

I would almost certainly say the photos would have been taken outside No. 163 (the Hollinsheads) and No. 155 (Lizzie Bould's house). We lived at No. 151. The four ladies in the photo, from left to right, are: Dolly Tentley, Mrs Hollinshead, the third one has slipped my mind and the fourth, Mrs Alice Littlejohn, was a friend of ours.

Lizzie Bould, with the Union flag around her on the other photo, was another great character.

Several great street parties were held over the years.

The ladies' egg and spoon race as always was good for a laugh. I can still visualise it now after all these years.

It is good mental therapy recalling long forgotten names and things with my brothers and sister and friends.

COLIN VAUGHAN

Forsbrook