KEITH Winterbottom had more than a passing interest in a photograph taken outside the Travellers Rest published in an earlier Memories column.

He recognised it as being taken when his father William Winterbottom was licensee of the Pogmoor pub between 1949 and 1963.

Keith is sitting on the ground at the front of the photograph with his arms folded. He was nine -years- old at the time. His dad is the tall man on the right of the photograph.

"I remember it was a happy time for us. We kept animals at the back of the pub including pigs and hens. One day a pig got drunk when it managed to get access to the waste beer which had come out of the pumps."

Keith also kept a pony in the field opposite the pub in Intake Lane before bungalows were built there. We also heard from Brenda Highfield (nee Copeland) who believes the man with the dog and wearing a trilby hat is her father, Harold Copeland.

He played the piano at the Travellers each weekend for a number of years. He stopped playing about 1960.

The group of people includes back row: Wilf Chatterton, Tommy Wilmot, Jimmy Braithwaite, Tommy Peake, Herbert Porter and Albert Peake.

Middle row: Frank Wilmot, Charlie Collier, Joe Beevers, Lucy Mather, Bill Winer.

Front row: Bill Palethorpe, Freddie Jones, Ned Gledhill, Pat Porter, Bill Croft.

The photograph was loaned by the present landlord Terry Unwin. He believes the pub is about 120- years old. It was given to him by the late George Butcher who lived in Intake Lane.

The first recorded landlord was George Palfreyman who was at the Travellers between 1864 and 1889.