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

2022 - 2023 Julia Berry

2023 -2024 Tommy Gray

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