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- ↑ "The Top Storey Club Fire 1961" . Retrieved 9 January 2014.
- 1 2 3 Details of Coroner’s Inquest, 30 January 1961 - June 13, 1961, Folder ABZ/73/1, Bolton Archive
- ↑ Bolton Evening News, May 2, 1961
- ↑ Bolton News, 20 June 2001
- 1 2 3 Glasgow Herald, June 14, 1961
- 1 2 Details of Coroner’s Inquest, Folder ABZ/73/3, 2 May 1961 – 25 November 1968, Bolton Archive
- ↑ National Archives, Kew, ref HO 346/10
- ↑ National Archives Kew, Public Records, original department reference FIR (1960) 8/707/4-8
- ↑ "Boss of fire-hit Top Storey Club dies at 84" . Retrieved 9 January 2014.