TWO inseparable friends prepared to join the outside world after 40 years in Calderstones Hospital, Whalley.
Margaret, 78, and Bella, 74, were institutionalised for minor abnormalities in the 1920s.
Shoppers who made the trudge through the snow to Blackburn town centre found many shelves had been picked clean due to dwindling stocks.
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