Our top picture this week shows a group of female operatives working at the Rists Wires and Cables factory on Pickup Street.
Former Observer photographer Garth Dawson snapped the picture in 1964.
He said: “The firm produced electrical wiring for cars.
“The firm no longer exists the factory has been demolished to make way for a housing estate.”
Our next picture shows a group of students studying hard at Paddock House School in Oswaldtwistle during the 1970s.
Garth said: “It was a Catholic girls’ school with around 300 pupils.
“It was closed and demolished in the 1990s.”
The final picture shows a row of shops that once stood directly opposite Accrington Town Hall.
Garth said: “The picture was taken in the 1930s.
“The row was called Piccadilly and again, they were demolished to make way for the building that now stands there.”
Did you work for Rists Wires and Cables in the 1960s, or were you a student at Paddock House School?
Why not let us know and send us your memories for our letters page?
We want to publish your old pictures. They can be from any era up to the 1990s.
Please bring them to our Market Hall office or email them to accringtonobserver@ menmedia. co.uk and tell us why they are important to you.
Contact Garth at garth@ dawsong84.freeserve.co.uk.
