RETRO: Here's what was making the Wigan news in 1977
Famous faces, local folk, boxing training and an It’s a Knock-out competition are among the events our photographers went to in 1977.
By Michelle Adamson
Published 3rd Mar 2023, 04:55 BST
RETRO – 1977
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World famous opera singer Isobell Baillie, then aged 82, with, left, Ronald Kay, conductor of the Oriana Choir and her pupil Robert Alderson before performing at a Good Friday programme of passion music at St. Wilfrid's Church, Standish, on 8th of April 1977.
She was regarded as one of the 20th century's great oratorio singers and on the night sang an aria by Bach and a Mendelssohn duet with Robert Alderson. Photo: Frank Orrell
Round the World yachtsman Sir Alec Rose with workers during a visit to the Dunlop factory in Hindley on Friday 22nd of April 1977.
They are sat in one of the types of dinghies made at the factory and taken along by Sir Alec on his epic voyages. Photo: Frank Orrell
A scene from Wigan Little Theatre's production of "Dracula" on Friday 28th of October 1977 with Paul Buer as Dracula, Peter Bartlett as Professor Van Helsing and Jim Stirrup as Jonathan Barker.
Photo: Frank Orrell