Follow-up

IN The Sixties, my sister-inlaw, Mrs Janey harte, who is now my neighbour in Blackpool, went on holiday, with her husband, to Spain. one day, as it was raining, they decided to go into town by bus. outside the hotel, at the bus stop, was another couple, and they started to chat. The man said that he lived in Folkestone, but as a child he had lived in Wigan. Janey said: ‘I live in Wigan.’ ‘I went to St John’s RC School,’ he continued. Janey replied: ‘So did I.’ As they were more or less the same age, he then said to her: ‘I have a communion photograph In my hotel room of me and others. I will bring it to you later, you might know someone on it.’ he brought the photograph and, pointing to a boy, said: ‘There I am.’ Janey then pointed to a girl on the photograph and, in a voice of astonishment, said: ‘And there I am.’ What a striking coincidence.

albert edward Short, Blackpool.