THE photograph of Lowe House we featured on our nostalgia pages has been stirring the memories for readers.

Peter Martland emailed in to say: "Although 45 years have passed since I left St Helens I do read the online edition of the Star.

"I was nine years old when in 1956 the photograph of Lowe House choir past and present was taken; at the time I was an altar boy, and attending Lowe House primary school.

"I must have been schoolmates with several of the boys on the first two rows but can only recognise

a couple of them. I am pretty sure the boy on the front row far left is John Spencer, who lived in Oxford Street.

"On the front row second right is possibly a boy named Michael Mills.

Standing just behind him is the diminutive figure of Joe Dennett. He ran the newsagents shop at the corner of Crab St and North Road and came from a hugely talented family of musicians.

The priests in the photograph were, third row from the back on the left Fr Finnimore who managed the altar boys and on the right Fr Gibbons who managed the choir."

Another reader came up with several names of faces they could recognise. These include:

Vincent McCormick; George Clary; Bob Kennedy (?); Aloysius Curran; Dr O’Brien; Joe Leigh (choir master at one time); Tom Gaskill; Joe Dennett; Fr Gibbons; Fr Finnimore; Tom Leigh

and John Coster.