Alan Jones

NLN, if it was the Alan Jones that I remember (now in his sixties, with a, probably greying, full ginger beard ~ but may have shaved by now), he was my first Horwich "coach".

He was an ultra distance runner and for a while ran the Tuesday night sessions back in the eighties. He had a sports shop on the corner of Brownlow Road (became a greengrocer's at one point, not sure what it is now, will look on my way home ~ not that anyone'll be interested). He'd make (or have made) shoes for you, measuring by tracing round your foot.

Hadn't seen him for about 20 years, but bumped into him last year and had a bit of a chat.

On the other hand, it may not have been that Alan Jones.

EtU