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@ Mamya. I used to go to Bolton School (Chorley New Road) and the Victoria Hall Methodist mission in Knowsley Street.
I'm assuming you will know both?

why is the froth or residue from beer brewing called bam? only joking. thanks Mamya, and Elle, that sounds aboot right.

Hi elle
We used to have an intense rivalry with Bolton School (football, mainly, though rugby for me) and it was always a big match. Sadly, we rarely won!
(I taught at QEGS Blackburn)

Elle, I lived just across the road from Bolton School and my Mum worked there fora time - have attended many events at the Victoria Hall (very good acoustics).

They are also known as bamsticks in Scotland.
And we have a species known as "internet bampots" who wear that moniker as a badge of honour!

Ah just up the A666 from me Chris.

@Chris..by the time you were teaching at QEGS, I would have been long gone from Bolton! but what a small world!!!!
My cousin still lives in Blackburn and one of her daughters must be fairly near to you in the "disputed area"!
@ Mamya, incredible, your living just opposite the school! and your mum working there! I wonder would I have known her?
@ Rusty, bam 'sticks' sound as though they are long and thin? Barmcakes are round and doughy!

elle
The area is so disputed that they have given up putting "Lancashire" signs just up the road from us (they were rapidly thrown over the fence) - the sign just says "Borough of Pendle" now.

Oh dear.... cousin's daughter has the reverse problem....where she lives used to be Lancashire, but is now designated as 'Yorkshire'... great indignation all round!!!!!

She wasn't a teacher Elle, but a valued member of the domestic team that kept that huge pile clean and tidy - when she retired they presented her with a pottery image of herself made in the pottery class.

She treasured it.