Last updated 15.March.2005
 

Farnworth Grammar School

1935 Tree-planting

Contributed by Elsie Downes (now Mullineux)


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I think the jubilee referred to in this undated clipping from the Bolton Evening News must have been the Silver Jubilee of King George V in 1935. Are the 25 elms and poplars still there, I wonder?



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