Your pages from the past: Saturday, December 19, 1964
Here's the Express & Star's front page from Saturday, December 19, 1864 - the Saturday before MPs were to vote on abolishing the death penalty for murder. MPs were widely expected to vote in favour of abolition, and did so on December 21, 1964.
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A 6ft7ins girl from Manchester was in the process of having her shortened at Oswestry Orthopaedic Hospital. Anne Rowston, 19, hoped to be six inches shorter come the new year after having sections of bone removed from her legs in a series of operations.
Pictured in Victorian dress are shopkeepers from Aldridge, who donned their costumes as part of Dickensian Christmas week.
