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Matt Busby arrives to be knighted
Plus this week in 1993, Manchester group Take That perform at their home city as part of the promotional tour for their new album Everything Changes.
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Val Doonican 1975
Our main image this week shows popular singer and entertainer Val Doonican with stars from the Royal Ballet at Manchester’s Palace Theatre. The date is October 1975.
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Manchester Theatre School
Popular presenter Matthew Kelly and Shakespearean stalwart Sir Anthony Sher have a big reason to thank Manchester School of Theatre. How well do you know the stars who studied for the big time in Manchester?
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Talent Shows – Manchester Edition
iNostalgia remembers the TV talent shows Opportunity Knocks and New Faces – and the future Manchester stars who appeared on them
Talent Shows – Merseyside Edition
iNostalgia remembers the TV talent shows Opportunity Knocks and New Faces – and the future Merseyside stars who appeared on them
Women at War
iNostalgia looks back on women at war in Manchester from 1939 to 1945 with the aid of remarkable photos from the M.E.N. archive
Princess Elizabeth in Albert Square 1949
Welcome to Then and Now, where each week we compare images of Manchester streets, landmarks, buildings and events from bygone days with today. Our image this week shows Princess Elizabeth, our future Queen, reviewing troops in Albert Square. It is March 1949, just four years after the end of the Second World War.
Love on the Dole
iNostalgia finds out why the kitchen-sink drama owes its place in popular culture to the streets of Salford
Rita Tushingham
iNostalgia remembers Rita Tushingham’s trail-blazing career – and the movies that made her a 1960s cinema icon
Memories of the 70s
How well do you remember Manchester in the 1970s? It was a time of industrial unrest, the three-day Week, decimalisation and the nation’s entry into the Common Market. Why not test your knowledge of the 70s in our weekly nostalgia quiz? It’s just the tonic for the continuing lockdown.
Manchester 1980s
How well do you remember Manchester in the 1980s? Why not test your knowledge in our nostalgia quiz and compare your score with friends?
Brookside ’93
iNostalgia remembers some of the Brookside stars who put charity first in September 1993
Giants of football enjoy tennis at Wimbledon
Plus this week in 1976, Manchester City forward Brian Kidd poses for the press at Maine Road ahead of the 1976-7 season.
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Trafford Park in decline
Plus, we wonder whether Phil Neville has chosen the wrong sport?
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Ladies of the Rovers
iNostalgia looks back on the early gossip queens of Coronation Street and their favourite haunt – the Rovers
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America’s latest craze arrives in the UK
Plus this week in 1996, destruction caused by a bomb planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Manchester is plain to see as debris is cleared at the Arndale centre.
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Australian cricketer Dennis Lillee on treatment table
Plus this week in 1968, Nicholas the hippo devours an entire birthday cake brought along by Birmingham children visiting Belle Vue Zoo.
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Containerisation arrives at the Port of Manchester
Plus this week in 1967, cars park at Manchester’s Ringway Airport at a time when air travel was less fraught and not subject to stringent Covid testing regulations.
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