THIS week’s memory soaked photo was sent to me by Ann-Marie O’Connor.

Her parents, Val and James O’Connor, asked her to share the image, which shows her aunt on Victory Day, in Moss Bank among a group of youngsters.

She is second on the left on the front row holding the puppy. Does anyone know the story behind the picture and like to share it with Coffey Time.

Meanwhile, Alan Tucker has written a book about growing up in post-war St Helens. It’s called ‘Head Cook and Bottlewasher’.

Alan was born in 1942 at a small maternity home called Ingleside at Toll Bar.

He wrote: “The years 1942 to 1960 were, by any stretch of the imagination, unique, and I wanted to recall my own memories, experiences, and observations of life in my hometown in the 1960s.”

Any book that has a picture of a bag of Clock Face Potato Crisps included in the photos on the cover can’t be bad, and there are many, many photos inside.

You can buy it at Wardleworths on Westfield Street. The price is £9 and all the proceeds from the sale of the book go to Willowbrook Hospice.