THIS week we look back at a photograph of three 'love-Leigh' ladies in the late 1850s.
The picture was taken by E V Roberts, a photography studio that was on Bradshawgate in Leigh after being founded in 1856.
This type of photograph was called a carte de visite, a small picture taken to send to others or to remember an occasion.
They were popular at the time.
The women are dressed in clothes typical of the age, wearing hats and dresses with pinched waists.
The fact that they are not smiling was also typical of that era.
If you have a photograph you would like us to use in Look back at Leigh, send it to newsdesk@leighjournal.co.uk with your name, address and a daytime telephone number, plus details of when the picture was taken and what it shows.
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