Edgworth Women's Institute in a scene from Sailor Beware at the Theatre Playhouse in Preston. October 1976
DO not let your eyes deceive you, The Bolton News is not holding evidence that the Tudors invented the camera.
While these ladies could be waiting to be served in the 1500s, it is actually the 1970s.
Dressed in the finest Shakespearean garb members of Edgworth Women's Institute were enjoying a scene from Sailor Beware.
The comedy was being performed in October 1976 at the Theatre Playhouse in Preston as part of the Women's Institute Festival of Plays.
After the festival it entertained audiences in Bolton with a two-day run at the Barlow Institute later that month.
Pictured are, from left, Eunice Riley, Eunice Bellis, Susan Benshaw, Christine Isherwood, Pam Goodier and Avril Finch.
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