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Bury was for centuries a small market town at the junction of two important highways.Like a string of other towns in South East Lancashire it grew during the Industrial Revolution and still bears some of the scars. But today it it moving forward confidently to the future while preserving the best traditions of the past. On this video we see Bury as it is and as it was. We see the famous market still flourishing amid the malls and squares of the moderm Mill Gate shopping centre. At the bus/rail interchange the pioneering Metrolink 'trams' arrive from the heart of Manchester, while down the road proud locomotives of earlier age steam along the East Lancashire Railway. Back to the past, to Edwardian Bury and unique film taken in 1907; Radcliffe in festive mood in 1935 to celebrate the granting of their Charter; a football match at Gigg Lane in the thirties and the visit to Bury of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1938; a pre-war parade of cadets at Grammer School while younger boys enjoy a summer camp in North Wales.