YOUNG and old combined to put Leigh history on record.
Eight service users from the Orchards Day Centre went out tape recorder and microphone in hand to put on record events which are part of the town's history.
They gleaned information from area elders Mary Mann, a resident at Lyndhurst care home, Hindley Green duo William and Eileen Gregory and the encyclopaedic Brian Griffin and Gerald Warren.
Then Wigan and Leigh College students on a B Tec National Diploma in media studies course spent countless hours editing the interviews.
Here Vince Topping (centre) and Stephen Bartoszek from the Orchards check out the tapes with students Kirsty Black, Kay Huby, Emily O'Donnell, Dave Wilson and Asha Ali Ismail. BG
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