OUR recent glimpse at village life during the start of the 1920s has resulted in some amazing feed-back.

Regular customers may recall that a flashback photo accompanied the item. This featured 11 members of the local Millington family, well-scrubbed and posing in Sunday-best outside their cramped 18th-century stone cottage at Billinge.

Now I learn that two from that group, snapped 80 years ago outside the historic Startham Cottages (circa 1734) still survive, although the dwellings are long gone.

The nostalgia-oozing shot had been forwarded by former Billinger John Heyes, now of Moss Bank Elderly Persons Home, who wrote: "What a credit those children were to their mother!"

One of those kids turns out to be the mother of Mavis Taylor of Brown Birch Farm, Rainford, who writes: "My mother, Daisy Atherton, is the girl dressed in white with a bow in her hair. She is now 91, living with my sister in Crawford Village.The baby in arms is my Aunt Lily, now 80, and living in Rainhill."

And Mavis adds poignant further detail. "After that photograph was taken, gran had yet another daughter, Ivy. Gran was only 39 when she died in 1923, after bearing 11 children."

AND she signs off with justifiable cause: "My two sisters and myself are more than proud of our ancestry."