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The Palace cinema in Ashton which was showing the Elvis film 'Girls Girls Girls' in the early 1960s.

A view from Highfield of Westwood power station cooling towers showing how they dominated the skyline shortly before demolition in 1989.

A dilapidated Woodhouse stadium in 1977 which was the home of Wigan Harriers and various school athletics meetings.

Miners wait for the cage to take them back down the pit on the first shift back after the Golborne Colliery disaster in March 1979.

A view down Salisbury Street looking towards Golborne Colliery in the 1970s.

Golborne Colliery towards the end of its life in 1984.

High Street, Golborne, in 1989.

Highfield Grange Carnival Queens in 1987.

The County Playhouse on King Street, Wigan, which was a bingo club in this view from 1980.

















Norman and Philip hairdresser, Paul Kirkham, styles Carolyn Barnett's hair in 1985.