Back row – Mildred Fewster, Nancy Rushton (captain), Margaret Parker. Front – Gill Cook, Jean Mitchell, and Mary Hardacre. Diane Dickinson and Edwina Bowers were at college when the photograph was taken. For the second successive season, the Burnley Lawn Tennis Club ladies team have won the North East Lancashire knockout. In the recent final, they beat Feniscowles four matches to nil, the team pairing being Jean Mitchell and Nancy Rushton, Mildred Fewster and Edwina Bowers.
The ladies also won the Northern Area knockout, defeating Bowerham at Lancaster 5-4, a particularly fine performance as the victims were this year’s winners of the Ralph Bint Trophy in which Burnley lost in the semi-final