2002 featured a visit to the town by Coronation Street actor John Savident, who played butcher Fred Elliott in the long running soap. Real life mirrored soap life as he helped serve customers at Elliott’s Butchers in Dewsbury Market. It was a 12 months which saw football fans come together at the town’s new Asda store to watch England in the World Cup while Dewsbury played host to a range of community events. READ MORE: 43 of the best photos take you back to Birstall in the 1990s YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of nostalgia
25. Dewsbury in 2002
Kirklees Splash leaders, from left, are Laura Searle, Lee Pettinger and Lori Conway, at Dewsbury's St. John Fisher High School in July 2002. | Keith Lawson Photo: Keith Lawson
26. Dewsbury in 2002
Art secretary of the Dewsbury Arts Group Dennis Casson hangs one of the paintings on show at the exhibition in Dewsbury Town Hall in July 2002. | Jonathan Gawthorpe Photo: Jonathan Gawthorpe
27. Dewsbury in 2002
Little Masey Rylah from Dewsbury Moor looks through the history boards of Anna Nowoslawski's life at the 'Stories in a Suitcase' exhibition held at Dewsbury Museum in Crow Nest Park in June 2002. Photo: Emma Nichols
28. Dewsbury in 2002
This is Westborough High School headteacher Francoise Mathile Leake pictured in June 2002 after she was awarded a CBE. | Bruce Rollinson Photo: Bruce Rollinson
29. Dewsbury in 2002
Young Connor Smith is given the baton by the conductor to hold during the performance by the Light Infantry Division Band from Catterick, outside Dewsbury Town Hall in May 2002 | Emma Nichols Photo: Emma Nichols
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Share your memories of Dewsbury in 2002 with Andrew Hutchinson via email at: [email protected] or tweet him - @AndyHutchYPN | Gary Longbottom Photo: Gary Longbottom