Football continued during the Second World War in an effort to keep morale high, although many clubs were forced to field weakened teams with many of their players in the forces.
Topping the Manchester League in 1945 with 31 points from 14 games - and it was two points for a win in those days - was Manchester United Reserves.
Glossop, with just eight points from 15 matches, were rock bottom.
Other teams included Manchester City Reserves, Bury Reserves, De Haviland, Fairey Aviation and the RAF.
There was no Victory in Europe parade through Glossop on VE Day 1945, with men still fighting in Asia or returning slowly from their wartime duties.
But when they did get ‘home’, life didn’t always work out for those who made it back.
In 1949, we reported how a former soldier who served with the Chindits in the Second World War’s Burma Campaign was evicted from his council house home by the Glossop Corporation because he owed £20 in rent.
Frank Bennett, who had a wife and two children, told the council that he would be homeless.
However, the order was still made and the family’s furniture was stacked up outside the property.
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