On the way to nans Mr.Hail* gave me a lift, he stalled the car at Padgate lights and couldn’t get it going again, plus the exhaust was trailing on the floor, me and Mally got out and pushed. Debbie Sutch was behind us with her mum. Walked to town got 4 records. Went town Police Station to identify my bike* but it wasn’t there. Stayed in all day and night.

* Mr Hail was the father of John and Malcolm (Mally) Hail who lived at 48 Station Road, Padgate. In fact they still live at 48 Station Road, Padgate.

* my parents bought me a racing bike for Christmas, it was a white Carlton International with green handlebars and had six gears. A bike that all my friends wanted to have a go on. I was very proud of this bicycle and looked after it well. As my parents didn’t have a shed or garage I had to leave the bike outside, from where it was subsequently stolen. I went to the police station to report it stolen at the old Padgate Police station on Station Road. Several months later I received at letter from the police to invite me to Warrington police station to see if I could identify my bike from the numerous ones that they had recovered. I was naively optimistic that my bike would be there. When I arrived I attended and was led to a large room with about three dozen old bikes in it all in various stages of completeness. I could not however, identify mine and left the police station very disappointed.