This picture was taken probably in the 1920s, and features men from the Horwich Loco Works setting off for a picnic.
The building pictured is still an off-licence on Chorley New Road, Horwich, and Mrs Christine Mort, of Rannoch Road, Breightmet, tells me that she and her husband ran it in the 1970s.
She says that locally it was known as The Cat, and as you can see, at the time of the photograph was owned by Magee Marshall. The name over the door is, as far as I can work out, Matthew Guthrie.
Mrs Mort told me that in the olden days, at lunchtime workers from the Loco Works would be served pints from the side of the building. You may see a small girl on the left of the picture -- when Mr and Mrs Mort had the off-licence, the "grown up girl", by then probably in her 70s, lived across the road and was still a customer.
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