REGARDING your article about the Burnley Home Guard drum being found in a second-hand shop (LET, October 26), at the end of the last war when I was a teenager living in Earby, I started going to Turf Moor and I well remember the Burnley Home Guard Band (and the big drum!) entertaining the crowd.
My train fare - a half - was 9d, I think, admission to the ground cost about a shilling.
The first match I ever saw was a friendly against a Polish Air Force eleven, and another was against Accrington Stanley (North Region League, I think - 0-0 was the score). They had a left back called Snowden who looked a bit like Ronald Shiner!
REX SMITH, Low Moor Lane, Barnoldswick.
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