TODAY we begin a monthly Looking Back series taking us back to school days of yesteryear.

The first batch of photographs shines a spotlight on 1973.

This was the year Pink Floyd released The Dark Side of the Moon, VAT came into effect in the UK and Princess Anne married Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey.

A pint of beer cost 14 pence in 1973 and the average price of a detached house was £16,980.

Back in Bolton and it was books, charity and road safety concerning the children of Bolton's schools.

Do you recognise any of the children from Westhoughton Parochial School, on a tour of the library in Westhoughton?

In October, 1973, children from Chalfont Street Primary School toured the surrounding streets with harvest food parcel gifts for local old folk.

There are dozens of faces to scan through at Castle Hill County Primary School where pupils received a special road safety trophy for their use of the Green Cross Code.

Road safety was seemingly a topic in the spotlight in schools in Bolton back in '73, as children at St Bede's Primary School also received a trophy in December that year.

The Duckham trophy was presented to the Bolton school with the best road safety record over the previous three months.