I'VE been very pleasantly inundated with response to a query from reader K. Bloomfield (May 24) who wondered if anyone could remember when Pilkingtons had a works theatre for music and drama, and could confirm that, before then, the building had been a hospital for wounded first world war soldiers.
When the fabulous flow of information and photographs eases up, I will give a full splash to this memory-jerking theme.
In the meantime, my thanks for their contributions to go to, among others, Margaret Highcock; Len Berrey of Windle whose namesake late father was producer of pantos there for some years; Roy Makinson of Austin Avenue, St Helens (he enclosed a comprehensive account of Pilkington Special Hospital, which he compiled some years ago); and Sylvia Leech of Broad Lane, Collins Green, who tells me it's her first-ever letter to a newspaper (I'm honoured ma'am!).
SO please keep tuned to this page for chapter and verse on that intriguing theatre/hospital topic.
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