ELEVEN-year-old Damien Dunn came up trumps in 1983 with his nifty bit of detective work.
When the youngster handed over a large stone over the bar of the Red Lion pub in Burscough, landlord Des Feely promptly honoured a pledge he had painted on the stone, before hiding it in the Lake District.
On it was written: “If you find this stone, then claim your free pint at the Red Lion, Burscough.” Des had hidden the stone in a wall near a stream. The wall crumbled and the stone fell in the stream.
Over a year later, while on his summer holidays, Damien decided to do some dam building in the Haweswater Valley and found the stone.
Damien wrote to Des saying he was too young to claim a pint but a lemonade would do instead. He made the trip to the pub from his home in Bebington.
Des told the Advertiser at the time: “When the stone came back to the pub you could have knocked me down with a feather.”
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