Newspaper production has changed rather a lot over the years, to say the least, and half a century ago of course there was nothing like the internet for putting out stories. We’ve been trawling through our extensive photographic archives and have gone back 51 years for a behind-the-scenes look at the production of the Wigan Post and Chronicle at Brock Mill in Leyland Mill Lane in 1971.
Post and Chronicle 1971
13. 1971
The Post and Chronicle newspaper office in Crompton Street with the Halifax Building Society to the left and The Lads Shops electrical shop on the right in 1971. Photo: Frank Orrell