Aspects of people’s lives in the town

The following pictures show a series of events that contributed to the pattern of individual people’s daily lives and other significant events that affected a wider audience.

Keawyed Tradition – Cutting off the cow’s head, after World War I in 1919

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Clinic 1928
Knocker Up – before digital alarm clocks!
Coop deliveries at corner of King Street
Milk delivery at Marsden Street by Robert Abrahams 1947
Centenary of the Carnegie library in 2006

Councillor Winifred Kettle 1977
Councillor Mary Mcintyre 1974

Local Entertainers of the early 60s

The Invaders 1964
Bobby and the Drovers

The Overspill protests of the 1960s

Overspill protest by Dobb Browers in 1964
Overspill protesters 1963
Protests against the overspill from Manchester into Westhoughton in the 1960s