A CONSERVATION group had started their clean up operation at Clitheroe Station.The area needed to be cleaned in time for the restart of the service, which would open on May 18, 1991.
The Mayor of Ribble Valley Cllr Howel Jones along with his daughter Helen, who was Mayoress of Ribble Valley, can be seen holding a shovel and a wheelbarrow respectively in the centre of the picture.
The prospective Conservative MP Nigel Evans was also in attendance and can be seen pictured with a shovel next to the former Ribble Valley mayor.
Less than a year later the Tory candidate would regain Ribble Valley from the Liberal Democrats at the 1992 general election.
His victory would come just months after he had been defeated by Mike Carr, the Liberal Democrat candidate, in a Ribble Valley by-election on March 8, 1991.
The by-election had been caused by the resignation of Ribble Valley MP David Waddington.
The openly gay MP has now represented the Ribble Valley for nearly 30 years.
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