FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23rd - 29th MAY 1972)
This week's stories include a child's death at Barton's Carpets after a roll of carpet fell down, the star-spangled Windle filling station, the poisoning of family pets in Billinge, a claim of a shopping war in the high street, the Clock Face home gazumping, the woman living in terror in Parr Street, the Westfield Street salon owner troubled by vandals and thieves and the parent-led Children's Club founded in Gartons Lane.