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Maurice Cohen wearing a World War One German steel helmet and sister Michelle sporting a German Pickelhaube which they spotted at a flea market in the Queen's Hall, Wigan, on Saturday 24th of May 1975.Maurice Cohen wearing a World War One German steel helmet and sister Michelle sporting a German Pickelhaube which they spotted at a flea market in the Queen's Hall, Wigan, on Saturday 24th of May 1975.
Maurice Cohen wearing a World War One German steel helmet and sister Michelle sporting a German Pickelhaube which they spotted at a flea market in the Queen's Hall, Wigan, on Saturday 24th of May 1975.

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

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.

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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

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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.

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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

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Norman Wisdom happy to sign autographs and joke with fans in Wigan town centre in 1975.

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Norman Wisdom happy to sign autographs and joke with fans in Wigan town centre in 1975. Photo: Frank Orrell

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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.

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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

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