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A papier mache mould of a page which would be clamped to a hot metal plate to impress the words and pictures on the Post and Chronicle newspaper at Brock Mill in Leyland Mill Lane in 1971.Upload...

An operator using the vario clichograph machine to scan black and white photographs and engraving them onto aluminium plates for the Post and Chronicle newspaper at Brock Mill in Leyland Mill Lane in...

An artist designing an advertisement for the Post and Chronicle newspaper at Brock Mill in Leyland Mill Lane in 1971.Upload Date: 08 Feb 2018Original Filename: POST AND CHRONICLE 4.JPGStore Filename:...

An advertising rep from the Post and Chronicle selling newspaper space to a shop owner in Wigan town centre in 1971.Upload Date: 08 Feb 2018Original Filename: POST AND CHRONICLE 3.JPGStore Filename:...

Photographers in the darkroom at the Post and Chronicle newspaper at Brock Mill in Leyland Mill Lane in 1971.Upload Date: 08 Feb 2018Original Filename: POST AND CHRONICLE 2.JPGStore Filename:...

The papers are packaged and bound in the publishing department ready for vans to take them to the newsagents from the Post and Chronicle works at Brock Mill in Leyland Mill Lane in 1971.Upload Date:...

The papers stream off the press at the Post and Chronicle works at Brock Mill in Leyland Mill Lane in 1971.Upload Date: 08 Feb 2018Original Filename: POST AND CHRONICLE 12.JPGStore Filename: 35945379...

The metal pages clamped to the press in the machine room at the Post and Chronicle newspaper at Brock Mill in Leyland Mill Lane in 1971.Upload Date: 08 Feb 2018Original Filename: POST AND CHRONICLE...

Plate setters shaping the metal pages to clamp to the presses at the Post and Chronicle newspaper at Brock Mill in Leyland Mill Lane in 1971.Upload Date: 08 Feb 2018Original Filename: POST AND...

The sick bucket comes in as contestants begin to flag.Upload Date: 08 Feb 2018Original Filename: PIE EATING 3.JPGStore Filename: 35945373.jpgByline: Frank Orrell Frank OrrellKeywords: PIE EATING 3...

PIES AVE COME: Some of the competitors eye up the targets for the first ever Wigan pie eating competition held at Harry s Bar in Wallgate on Monday 2nd of March 1998. Ready for the first bite are,...

Janet Gaskell, left, and Anne Halliwell enjoy a game of draughts watched by John Kinley at Penson Street Youth Club, Swinley, on Tuesday 31st of October 1972.Upload Date: 08 Feb 2018Original...