RETRO: celebrities, sport and a rescued cow were all making Wigan's news back in 1975
Famous faces, sports, celebrations, annual events and a rescued cow all feature in the mix of news and pictures retrieved from the Wigan Today archives filed under 1975.
By Michelle Adamson
Published 11th Mar 2023, 04:55 BST
RETRO: 1975
5. RETRO
Student Marilyn Evans enters the gentlemen only bar in the Market Hotel, Mesnes Street, Wigan, on Monday 29th of December 1975, the first day of the new equality act for women. For 50 years men only had crossed the threshold of the exclusively male only bar in the Wigan pub but the Sex Discrimination Act changed all that. Photo: Frank Orrell
Legendary comic Norman Wisdom gets a lift up from Eileen Owen and Joan Vanes as he frolics with shoppers in Standishgate during an impromptu visit to Wigan town centre in May 1975. Photo: Frank Orrell
Doctors and nurses from Billinge Hospital who took part in a charity football match in aid of the David Mather Geriatric Unit at Billinge in November 1975. Photo: Frank Orrell