Stacking newspapers into sacks ready for the salvage men are Stephen Morris Michael Jackson Alan Smith and Selwyn Morgan.

It is not often that children can boast of having provided much of their school equipment. But boys and girls at Hargher Clough Junior School have evolved a workable system of raising funds ( £1000 since the war)by saving their families scrap paper. The nucleus of this enterprising business venture is a corner of the school's ground floor which acts as a receiving and despatching office in the Steptoe manner. Paper is carefully stowed into sacks and converted via salvage men into P E equipment, tape recorders a projector and books and furniture in the library. Headmaster Mr J T Francis is sure that it is good for the children and knows that they enjoy using apparatus all the more for having been involved. Originally a combined infants and elementary school Hargher Clough was built to replace the old Westgate and Accrington Road Schools and after the second world war it became a junior and infants School but the infants section was transferred to Myrtle Bank. Staff include Miss Cottam, Miss Patterson, Mr H Clegg, Mr Richard Lawson, Miss Hallstead and Mrs Nelthorpe. Mr John Oakes is involved With chess and woodworking, Miss Barker and Miss Earnshaw organise the library, violin tuition is Miss Warden's role and Miss Heap teaches ballet. The academic prowess of the school is indicated by the success of ex-pupils - including two doctors, two ministers, one missionary, several Oxford or Cambridge scholarships, a professional cricketer for Lancashire, several members of Burnley's police force and a Burnley Express Reporter.