Nostalgia

A Chronicle news team raced to Mottram when reports came through that whales from Scotland were heading for the village.

It is normally snow, ice or collisions that close Back Moor to traffic. But in the summer of 1950, it was gallons of linseed oil and as our picture from the time shows, there were plenty of volunteers to clear up the mess.

Pupils and staff at St Mary’s Catholic Primary School, Dukinfield were keen to ‘do their bit’ to Make Poverty History - the global campaign urging the G8 nations to cancel the debt of the world’s poorest countries.

One of Tameside’s most famous sons was officially honoured by the borough with a civic reception in his home town.

Generous customers chipped in to help Bailey’s Fish Friers, Smallshaw Lane, Ashton raise an impressive £700 with their annual charity fish fry.

The Chronicle was throwing the spotlight on two real life and local superheroes in the winter of 1986.

It was February 1940 and the early months of the Second World War and Glossop had a battle to fight which was closer to home.

One of Stamford Park Bowling Club’s youngest members, 14-year-old Mark Glaister, won the president’s handicap competition.

Working for exams could be fun as more than 30 budding clothes designers from Droylsden Girls’ School discovered when they staged their own in-house fashion show.

To the pupils of Denton West End Primary School, Margaret Roebuck was already the best lollipop lady in the land.

Sections of a century-old beech tree that came crashing down onto Manor Park’s putting green are lowered onto a lorry in the spring of 1950.

The one-time President Pub on John Kennedy Road, Mottram, was losing its American connection.

Behind sombre-looking factory walls deep in the heart of Denton’s industrial belt, one of Britain’s most forward-looking firms had its future all sewn up.

With just ten days to go before polling day, deputy Labour leader George Brown was out on the hustings in Hyde’s new civic square.

Denton’s Russell Scott Junior School celebrated the centenary of the 1870 Education Act - the ground-breaking legislation which said there should be a school within the reach of every child.

Heavy rain on Whit Monday, 1945 caused Glossop Brook, which runs through Manor Park, to burst its banks flooding the Garden of Remembrance.

Ashton student Marie Holland was one of ten finalists in a charity challenge organised by Habitat stores in 1988.

Tameside towns were painted red, white and blue in May 1995 as pubs, clubs and community organisations celebrated the 50th anniversary of VE Day. 

Saturday morning rain showers failed to dampen the spirits of Ashton Carnival’s organising team. 

A tank called Glossop fought many a battle in the Second World War - and here it is with the soldiers who manned it.

More than a hundred miles from home and not knowing when they would see their parents again were children from Lowestoft, who arrived at Glossop Station after a tiring eight-hour train journey.

Two Trees High School was rapidly becoming a centre of sporting excellence - and as the Denton Reporter observed, it was the girls rather than the boys who were making all the running. 

Pictures taken by a Glossop Chronicle photographer show a length of track at Broadbottom Station being dug up and tonnes of spoil dropped into a truck.