Atherton
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Atherton is a former coal mining town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Mancheste, and historically in Lancashire.
LGBT history
Allan Horsfall lived there in the 1960s, and used his home address (a Coal Board cottage) on leaflets publicising the North Western Homosexual Law Reform Committee.[1]
References
- ↑ Amiable Warriors, Volume One, page 123.