4th August - The First World War broke out. Albert Tatlock and his friends Dinky Low and Clarrie Ross joined the Lancashire Fusiliers as soon as war was declared, trained at Bury and left in late 1915 for France where Clarrie was killed at the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
25th October - After the outbreak of the First World War, Cedric and Lottie Thwaite of the Corner Shop were attacked and injured by their neighbours because Lottie was German.