Margaret Thatcher visits East Lancs
This is the day in February 1979, that Margaret Thatcher paid a visit to East Lancashire.
The leader of the Conservative Party made her way through Great Harwood and Altham, stopping to chat to children and parents, just months before she made history and became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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