Former Mayors
The list of former Mayors goes back to the 19th century. You can read the roll of honour below to find out who was Mayor when you were born.
1881 - 1883 Augustus William Smethurst
1883 - 1884 Thomas Anderton
1884 - 1885 Thomas Whittle
1885 - 1886 John Heald
1886 - 1887 Thomas Forrester
1887 - 1889 Arthur George Leigh
1889 - 1891 Sir Henry Fleming Hibbert
1891 - 1893 John Whittle
1893 - 1894 James Lawrence
1894 - 1896 Thomas Howarth
1896 - 1897 Humphrey Norris Whittle
1897 - 1900 Bertram Jackson
1900 - 1902 George Thomas Brown
1902 - 1904 Henry Bradley
1904 - 1905 George Thomas Brown
1905 - 1907 James Sharples
1907 - 1909 James Winder Stone
1909 - 1911 Henry William Hitchen
1911 - 1912 Alban Jolly
1912 - 1913 William Henry Killick
1913 - 1915 Ralph Hindle
1915 - 1917 James Turner
1917 - 1920 Lewis Wilson
1920 - 1922 John Fearnhead
1922 - 1924 John Sharples
1924 - 1925 John Karfoot
1925 - 1925 John Sharples
1925 - 1927 Arnold Gillet
1927 - 1930 Ernest Ashton
1930 - 1931 Arnold Gillet
1931 - 1933 Bertha Maud Gillett
1933 - 1935 Peter Henry Hodgkinson
1935 - 1936 William Wilcock
1936 - 1939 Ralph Gent
1939 - 1942 Tom Hamer
1942 - 1944 Fredric Brindle
1944 - 1946 John Green
1946 - 1947 Richard Evans
1947 - 1949 Ernest Warburton
1949 - 1950 Samuel Cookson
1950 - 1951 George Brown Fletcher
1951 - 1952 Charles Williams
1952 - 1953 Thomas Heaton
1953 - 1954 Edith May Edwards
1954 - 1955 Bertram Harry Gaskell
1955 - 1956 William Wilcock
1956 - 1957 Willie Lowe
1957 - 1958 Thomas Grime
1958 - 1959 Edith Cunliffe
1959 - 1960 Constance Monks
1960 - 1961 Wilfred Rawcliffe MBE JP
1961 - 1962 George Reginald Rigby
1962 - 1963 Alic Robert Sheppard
1963 - 1964 David Dunn
1964 - 1965 Ian Sellars
1965 - 1966 Tom Clifton Shorrock
1966 - 1967 George Frederick Jones
1967 - 1968 Annie Forshaw
1968 - 1969 Walter Bleasdale
1969 - 1970 Adam Barnes
1970 - 1971 Thomas Rowlandson
1971 - 1972 Henry Vickers Davies
1972 - 1973 Dennis Edmund Seabrook
1973 - 1974 William Wilcock
1974 - 1975 William Corcoran
1975 - 1976 Patrick Keane
1976 - 1977 James Moorcroft MBE
1977 - 1978 Elizabeth Raby
1978 - 1979 Albert Edward Lowe
1979 - 1980 James Glynn
1980 - 1981 John Noel Lucas BSc, JP
1981 - 1982 Richard Morris JP
1982 - 1983 Karl Elijah Sandham
1983 - 1984 John Whalley Holme
1984 - 1985 Geoffrey Simons
1985 - 1986 Arthur Miller Crook
1986 - 1987 John Gerald Wilson
1987 - 1988 Edna Shone JP
1988 - 1989 John Livesey
1989 - 1990 James Meadows DFC, JP1
1990 - 1991 Francis Culshaw
1991 - 1992 Barry James Hodson
1992 - 1993 Ralph Snape MBE
1993 - 1994 Donald Simkin
1994 - 1995 Anthony Gee
1995 - 1996 George Arthur Birtrill OBE, JP
1997 - 1997 Melville George Coombes
1997 - 1998 Lindsay Hoyle
1998 - 1999 Alan Whittaker
1999 - 2000 Mrs Florence Molyneaux
2000 - 2001 Thomas McGowan
2001 - 2002 Dennis Edgerley
2002 - 2003 Raymond Parr
2003 - 2004 James Eric Bell
2004 - 2005 Daniel Peter Gee
2005 - 2006 Marie Gray
2006 - 2007 Mary Wilson
2007 - 2008 Adrian Lowe
2008 - 2009 Terry Brown
2009 - 2010- Iris Smith
2010 - 2011 Ken Ball
2011 - 2012 Pat Case CBE
2012 - 2013 June Molyneaux
2013 - 2014 John Walker
2014 - 2015 Roy Lees
2015 - 2016 Marion Lowe
2016 - 2017 Doreen Dickinson
2017 - 2018 Mark Perks
2018 - 2019 Margaret Lees
2019 - 2020 Hasina Khan
2020 - 2022 Steve Holgate