REGARDING your report (LET, January 21) on the new tour based on author William Woodruff's 'Road to Nab End' book about growing up in Blackburn in the Depression years, the photograph with it of the corner shop in Griffin Street, was not of Jack Tate's shop.

It was of the one on the corner of Griffin Street and Scar Street.

The shop, is No. 1 Griffin Street, next door to No. 3 where I lived from 1919 until 1940. Jack Tate's was across the road, at the corner of Portland Street and Scar Street. There was a shop at the end where the Woodruff's lived at No. 84 Griffin Street.

The people he mentions in his book are the ones I knew. On that row, there lived some girls like me and we played on the front.

There were the Higginsons, Murrays, Walkers, Lewthwaites, Dickinsons, Halsalls and one or two more. The Woodruffs lived approximately in the middle of the row.

Across the road, at the end of the houses facing the Parochial Hall, lived an undertaker called Sutcliffe.

Hope this will settle some disagreements.

E PERKINS (Mrs), Livesey Branch Road, Blackburn.