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