Nostalgia from Wednesday, August 13th, 2025

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.