Nostalgia from Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025

A former secretary of the Ashton and District Weavers Association was widely praised for his efficient, even-handed chairing of the TUC’s centenary congress in Blackpool.

A much-loved Ashton nightspot reopened in September 1968 with a glamorous new image and a change of name.

Miss Reporter Laraine Senthouse presented the prizes following the North West Driving Instructors Association annual road safety rally.

After months of rehearsals, Hyde Light Opera Company’s 1968 autumn show would soon be in full bloom.

Almost 50 years ago there were calls for High Peak Borough Council to delay giving the go-ahead for a housing development in Glossop.

Around 1,000 sheep were rounded up on the hills above Glossop and it only took three hours to do it.

It would have taken lots of pennies dropped into collection plates to pay for a Charlesworth church to be professionally scrubbed clean.