MORE than 30 years before he was made an honorary Leyther by the then Mayor of Wigan Clr Brian Jarvis, Liverpool’s favourite funnyman Ken Dodd was already famous in Leigh.
Here Doddy mingles with fans at the opening of the Wallpaper Supplies store in Railway Road in 1971.
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