Readers share their encounters with famous people in Oldham

Readers chimed in with their answers, which included athletes, entertainers and even a former Prime Minister.

One reader shared how he had attended primary school with Oldham-native Kevin Sinfield OBE.

Before his days of playing rugby league, followed by his current adventures of coaching and most famously raising millions of pounds for motor neurone disease in tribute to his former teammate Rob Burrow, Sinfield was appearing in a school production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Sinfield can be seen in a picture in the back row in a technicoloured jacket, in the lead role, with reader Matt Tuckey portraying a slave on the right in the front row.

Sinfield is circled in the back row

Mr Tuckey was not the only reader to meet a famous athlete from around the area.

One reader said they had served former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes and his family when they worked behind the till at Tesco's.

Scholes, who had a brief and infamous stint as manager of the Latics, lived in a mansion in Saddleworth for a number of years.

Moving on to entertainers, there was no shortage of Coronation Street actors who had been seen in the borough.

One reader had met both Nigel Pivaro, who played Terry Duckworth, and Sally Ann Matthews, who played Jenny Bradley.

Another, while working for Richard Shops in the town centre, met Anne Kirkbride, who played Deirdre Barlow on the soap.

She said she sold Kirkbride a white jacket while she visited the store.

Another reader met Tom Hingley, former lead singer of Oldham-based band Inspiral Carpets, who were part of the Madchester scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Hingley was originally from Berkshire but came to Manchester to study in the 1980s, eventually joining the band.

Inspiral Carpets lead singer Tom Hingley with reader Chris Shackleton

Finally, one reader claimed they met Gordon Brown while he was Prime Minister.

Brown infamously called a woman a "bigoted woman" just a stone's throw away in Rochdale.