Wigan Album
HINDLEY NEWS
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Photo: RON HUNT
Item #: 35830
various localities of the advertisers ???
On the back page it usually says printed and published by........?
That Could give a clue Ron.
And I've never heard of it.
Published and Printed by GAZETTE COMMUNICATIONS LTD at the Hindley Press. Prescott St. Hindley
Ron, when my parents, brother and myself were moved to Platt Bridge in the early 1970s due to our house in Ince being demolished, we used to get Hindley News delivered. It was free but the quality was terrible....my brother and I used to be in fits laughing as you very often couldn't read a lot of it due to the poor ink quality, which came off onto your hands! I remember there was once a "photo" with a caption underneath saying "Hindley Prize Band", and the photo was just a black square....you couldn't make anything out at all! I had left home to get married by 1974 so your copy shown above, dated 1976, seems to have improved in quality since the paper's beginnings, although the smudgy red lettering at the top of the page, gives a rough idea of what I mean, but at least it appears to have been readable in later years. I think it DID used to say where it was published, something like "Hindley Press", but it's so long ago that I just can't remember the address.
A much better picture quality than the Post and Chronicle it seems.
The masthead in red looks like it's been stamped on by hand.
I know my eyes play tricks but the title Hindley News isn’t straight at all. I can imagine a few folk trying to start a newspaper empire in a damp dark cellar somewhere in Hindley. They haven’t succeeded. I remember Roger Stott he died quite young.
I remember those "photographs" so well. The comments here made me chuckle. My friend Joan and I had our photograph taken in the school gym, and I've wondered since what that photograph actually looked like if any detail of it could be seen. The Hindley News and Advertiser (as I remember it being called) was printed in a rather nice old building in Castle Hill, not far from the police station. I'm not sure if its still there.
Veronica, he was MP for Westhoughton, and later became MP for Wigan, and according to the news snippet in the link, he died aged 56.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/422678.stm
That’s right Cyril. Quite young - he was only a lad really from my vantage point now.