Rochdale was the same. In the second week of the holidays everything shut. You couldn’t even buy a newspaper from the newsagent ! Old guys used to set up a stall in a nearby bus shelter.
I see Bobby Hoy who played a handful of games in the promotion run at the end of the 1974-75 season has died. He was a tricky winger that we signed from Huddersfield Town. He played a dozen games in the following season before leaving to join Halifax Town