DEMOLITION work had to be done on the gable end house of Mr Stanley Crompton, in Church Street, Little Lever, which was badly damaged when part of the road caved in during January, 1976.

Workmen salvaged the last of 62-year-old Mr Crompton's belongings in pouring rain before the bulldozers moved in.

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