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Relics tell of curling days
From the Bolton Evening News, first published Friday 7th Jan 2005.
HERE is some more on the curling saga. Regular readers will know that the Bolton branch of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club was a thriving local organisation in the early years of the last century.
A former farmer, Norman Hart, aged 76, of Ladybridge Lane, Ladybridge, tells me that if you go down the lane to the field on the left you can see the curlers' pond (now full of rushes) and - at certain times during the year - two overgrown concrete curling pitches.
Mr Hart moved to Holme Barn Farm, Ladybridge, in 1942, when he was 14. His father later took over Atkinson's Farm, where the curling relics are situated.
"I have lived here 62 years and I have never seen them being used," he says.
But he does have a curling stone which he discovered at the scene many years ago.
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