On September 19th 1960, a young journalist called Geoffrey Shryhane started work at the Wigan Observer - sixty years on and he's still here! Enjoy some of the many photographs taken on assignments during his illustrious career.
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Wigan Observer journalist Geoffrey Shryhane with the first Ford Capri to be sold in Wigan, 1971.
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Geoffrey Shryhane finds himself featured at the Wigan EXPO, 2002.
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Walter Hurst, right, with Geoffrey Shryhane, local journalist, makes a video documentary of Walter Hurst and Son, clog maker, before the shop closed down September 2001.