Over forty years ago a group of mothers got together in the local pub, the Lima Arms on Peru Street, they decided that they needed a safe place for their children to play in the long school holidays. They got in touch with Godfrey Claff the coordinator of the Peter Green Centre. He pitched an idea to them - open the center for six weeks to allow them somewhere safe and supervised for local children to play, and where the mothers could get together and make new friends. On one trip to a museum outside Manchester where they had a great time they got caught in a bad storm and the children had no coats . The mothers looking after them went to a nearby building site and asked for some plastic sheeting to cover the children, what a sight a line of children singing away quite dry while the mothers were soaking wet. As always putting the kids first.