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Daily Archives: 16th September 1928

Majestic Cheque Ceremony 1928

History DetectivesBy Harriet Roberts16th September 1928

£20,000 is an amazing amount of money to win on the football pools by today’s standards, but when Tom Hartley of 121 Higher Audley Street, Blackburn received his winner’s cheque on the stage at The Majestic Cinema in September 1928 it was a record breaking achievement that made the pages of the Sunday Mirror. For…

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