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We're all going on a summer holiday

Thursday, 10 July 2025 07:40

By David Jones

A nostalgic look-back to 1950 and Glossop Wakes fortnight when many of the town’s mills and shops closed and most people took their annual holiday.

However, it wasn’t always a trip to the seaside as these photographs from the Glossop Chronicle reveal.

The picture is of holidaymakers catching a train from Glossop station to Blackpool, but the others show stay-at home Glossopians enjoying a sunny summer’s day in Manor Park.

And just for the record the photograph wasn’t taken on a beach in Rhyl, it’s the park’s sand pit.

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