Day pupils joined the high Rollers...

3:04pm Thursday 3rd July 2008

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EIGHT youngsters all looking pristine in their uniforms, knock at the door for a lift to school.

But it wasn’t any ordinary house, for the Mayor of Blackburn, Alderman Lawrence Edwards, lived there.

And he had promised to take them for lessons, that day in May, 1966, in his Rolls-Royce! The children, aged between four and nine, were all pupils of St Gabriel’s C of E School — and that day they were all early into the playground! As he pulled away, the rest of their classmates, who had given them a rousing welcome, all cheered his deed.

Headmaster Edgar King, told the Lancashire Evening Telegraph at the time: “The mayor had promised seven-year-old Christopher Driver of Parsonage Road that he would pick up all his school friends living nearby as soon as he had his new pennant on the front of his car and he kept it!”

Were you one of the youngsters who enjoyed the ride in a Rolls, or do you recognise your sister or brothers from here?