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  • Mongrel mum Kelly putting her paws up

    Lovable mongrel Kelly preferred  horsepower to paw power as she hitched a ride in a pony and trap with her owner Eileen Pearson.

  • Shock revelation

    The powerful headline over a Glossop Chronicle front page story that revealed how up to 5,500 people could face mass evacuation from a deadly cloud of chlorine gas.

  • From the Chronicle files - 19th June 2025

    Smiling for the Glossop Chronicle photographer 39 years ago were (from left) Lynn Matthews, Wendy Marshall, Diane Bradbury and Karen Cameron.

  • Soap star Barbara’s clean getaway

    Market trader Barbara Vaughan made out a cheque to a wholesaler - and without thinking wrote the number ‘707’ in the amount box. 

  • Tom Jones in Hyde? It’s Not Unusual...

    The year 1965 was the ‘breakthrough’ year for Tom Jones - the swivel-hipped singer from the Welsh valleys whose smash hit ‘It’s Not Unusual’ kick-started a massively successful showbusiness career still going strong 60 years on. 

  • Cheers to a rich history

    A 15th Century silver chalice was the star exhibit at Denton’s famous black-and-white church in a fascinating display of the town’s past.

  • From the Reporter files - 19th June 2025

    ‘Miss Reporter’ Christine Lewis came close to winning a national title.

  • Stranded whales wash up in Mottram

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

  • From the Chronicle files - 12th June 2025

    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.

  • Banding together

    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.

  • Our champion

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

  • From the Reporter files - 12th June 2025

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

  • Driftbusters

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

  • From The Chronicle files - 5th June 2025

    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.

  • From The Reporter files - 5th June 2025

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

  • Girls' fashion's making the grade

    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.

  • Lollipop leader

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

  • Century-old beech comes crashing down

    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.

  • Raise a glass at the 'Lowry' Pub

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

  • Granby fashions expansion plan

    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.

  • Snap election

    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.

  • From the Reporter files - 29th May 2025

    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.

  • From the Chronicle files - 29th May 2025

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

  • Best by design

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

  • Tameside: A golden moment

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

  • From the Reporter files - 8th May 2025

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

  • Helping Glossop's tank crew

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

  • Finding a new home in Glossop

    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.

  • School netballers unbeatable to crown season on top of the tree

    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. 

  • Electrifying!

    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.

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