Nostalgia

Forty-nine years ago Britain was sweltering under a months-long dry spell and records show it was a degree or two hotter than in our present heatwave this week!

High Peak Borough Council was celebrating the restoration of Glossop Market Arcade - or at least its partial facelift - and the Duke of Norfolk was performing its reopening.

The Mayor of Tameside Cllr Kath Shaw visited Hyde’s Greenfield Primary School in July 1989 to say a special ‘thank you’ to three sisters.

The weather may have been underwhelming but everything else was near perfect for the 1989 Hattersley Carnival, with locals saying it was the best parade in years.

Wet and windy Werneth Low was hardly the ideal practice ground for Madrid Open champion golfer Derrick Cooper.

Willing volunteer Paul Muir was given the wet sponge treatment at St Mary’s Nursery and Infant School, Droylsden, summer fair, courtesy of Kirstie Whitehead, the town’s carnival queen.

Chaos was the was the word used by the Chronicle as road safety signs in Glossop town centre caused mass confusion.

It was all action in Old Glossop as the social club at Hawkshead Mill held what was to be the firm’s first annual sports day.

Sleeping Beauty had provided a sparkling opening to the latest chapter in Janice Hughes’ stage career.

A music legend inspired the 1st Mossley (St George’s) Guides to strike a winning note.

‘Roses’ were blooming on the football field in 1991.

‘Weeding and writing’ were on the school curriculum for Hurst Methodist Junior pupils in 1991.

A panoramic picture showing some of the many hundreds of people who gathered around the Gardens of Remembrance in Manor Park for Glossop Royal British Legion’s 20th annual Drumhead Service.

A market rent row story dominated the front page of the Glossop Chronicle exactly 50 years ago in the summer of 1975.

Back in January 1973, Cllr John Devaney was the chairman of Denton Council when fellow community champion Cllr  Fred Worthington made the first cut of the turf as work finally started on the eagerly awaited new Denton Swimming Baths next to Victoria Park. 

Rollermania was running riot in 1975 with hordes of tartan-clad teenage girls across the nation pledging their undying devotion for The Bay City Rollers.

Fifty years ago, traditional roles were reversed when Stalybridge Cricket Club staged its first ever women’s match.

An anchor that might have come from an ancient galleon had been recovered by members of Dukinfield Diving Club.