THIS week we take a look back at a picture of a walking day procession in front of the Boar’s Head pub.
Taken in 1938, the photograph was sent to us by Vincent Crook, whose mother Mary Crook (nee Delaney) is wearing a black armband on the far left during the parade of members of the Our Lady of the Rosary Church on Plank Lane, Leigh.
Mary, then 22, wore the armband over her coat to signify that she had just lost a baby.
However Mary and her husband James went on to have six more children.
They lived in Laxey Crescent, Leigh, until the turn of the century.
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