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The name of J Webster and Sons Ltd has been synonymous with fine quality home furnishings over many years and their new Garstang shop was opened by the Mayor Coun Tom Horn. Pictured above are Tony Clarkson, Tim Sutcliffe and Joe Webster (Junior) who were all on hand to welcome shoppers and the Mayor to the new store Photo: Archive
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Mrs Louisa Peake, 56, is the longest serving worker at the Springfields site of British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. Now a catering supervisor, she started in the kitchens in 1943 - before she should even have left school. Then the staple canteen diet included "savoury duck" - a dish which included all the kitchen odds and ends and NEVER any duck. Mrs Peake is pictured here in the canteen at Springfields Photo: Archive
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Countryman Clifford Thompson hopes the isolated acres at his St Micheal's farm, near Garstang, will be the ideal spot for the sky-high antics of parachutists. He is planning to establish a weekend parachute school with light aircraft taking off from a pastureland air strip. He is pictured on his land which he hopes to convert Photo: Archive
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Walking his way into the book world is Ian Brodie, a teacher at Garstang High School, who has produced a rambling guide entitled Walking From Garstang. He hopes to emulate his own walking hero Bruce Clucas who wrote the hiking bible Forty Rambles Photo: Archive