It was two days before Christmas in 1968 when a photographer from the Southend Standard – the Echo’s predecessor – visited a 23-year-old Miss (now Dame) Helen Mirren at her home in Leigh to take some ...

We’ve uncovered these long lost photos of a huge Hollywood star. It won’t take you long to figure out who the blonde bombshell is, pictured in the modest living room of her Leigh home back in 1968. It ...