‘And a packet of cigarettes please ....’ This photo from the archives records a special moment for many folk in Bolton.
Taken in 1947 it shows cigarettes back on display on the counter of a show for the first time since the outbreak of the Second World War eight years earlier.
Rationing came in almost immediately and smokers would have a long wait before things got back to normal.
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