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60 years on: 14 fascinating photographs of Shropshire from 1964

From Ken Dodd making a town centre appearance to Mary Whitehouse bundling up her latest petition.

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These images were all taken 60 years ago and capture just some of the big events making the headlines – and the characters that brought life to the county.

It was a year of floods, new technological developments – and there was a joint Christening of triplets.

Take a browse through history with these fascinating pictures from the Shropshire Star archive.

Bridgnorth Cliff Railway, June 23 1964 – 20 years after the line was switched to electricity power from water
Mary Whitehouse, television clean up campaigner, with a petition at her home in Claverley in late 1964
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