Football at the Holy Harbour
Memories of Football and Rounders at Holy Harbour – Everyone seems to have memories of playing football or rounders at the Holy Harbour sports ground off Hughes Street.
History of St Thomas’s Football Club – A potted history of the club who played their home games at Holy Harbour.
The demise of the Old Smithillians – What happens if you can’t recruit enough players for your team?
Playing football for St Thomas FC – Cliff and Len Tollady played for St Thomas’s for many years…
The Rose Queen
140th Anniversary of St Thomas’s Church – …while sister June Tollady was the first Rose Queen after the war in this history of the church.
Reunion of rose queens at church’s last crowning – Like Old Smithillians, what happens when no young girls want to be the Rose Queen?
Royal roses raise record-breaking £1,000 at 1990 parade – St Thomas’s Rose Queen Julia Larkin helps raise funds for charity in a town centre parade.
St Margaret’s Rose Queen 1973 – St Margaret’s Church on Lonsdale Road, Halliwell, also had Rose Queens.
