OVER the last nine months the Reporter has tried to paint a picture of what Dewsbury looked like when it published its first paper in 1858.
Next week, we will be unveiling another aspect of the town's history, this time a four-day exhibition of the Dewsbury Greats which features famous personalities from the town.
It has been produced jointly by the Reporter and Kirklees cultural services whose staff have completely redesigned and updated the original Dewsbury Greats.
The original exhibition was opened in 1992 by the Right Honourable Betty Boothroyd who was first woman Speaker of the House of Commons.
Since then she has been elevated to the House of Lords and now carries the new title of Baroness Boothroyd.
On Saturday October 18, the new version of the Dewsbury Greats will be unveiled by another local girl, this time Channel swimmer Eileen Fenton.
Another exhibition will be running alongside it, Men of Science, which features famous scientists from Dewsbury, including Tom Kilburn inventor of the world's first computer, and Nobel Prizewinner Sir Owen Richardson.
Both exhibitions will be on display for four days, starting from 10am to 3pm, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, and the Reporter has published a new updated commemorative Dewsbury Greats supplement, priced at £1 each.
- IT is 18 years since the Reporter and a newly-formed group called Dewsbury Means Business came up with the idea of staging a Dewsbury Greats exhibition to depict all the great and the good from Dewsbury.
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