by Malcolm Pheby | Apr 22, 2018 | Football, Manchester
Manchester City manager George Poyser was sacked this week in 1965. iNostalgia recalls some of the famous names who’ve vacated the City hot seat over the years. Life can get really tough when you’re a football manager. Sometimes you just want to go home, lay on a...
by Malcolm Pheby | Apr 20, 2018 | Manchester, Music
iNostalgia looks back at how the Beatles and the Rolling Stones took Manchester by storm. There was one massive question dividing the music world throughout the Swinging 60s. Did you love the clean-cut Beatles with their matching suits and hair-cuts or the rebellious...
by Malcolm Pheby | Apr 15, 2018 | Football, Manchester
As Manchester City’s current crop of playmakers are praised from all quarters, iNostalgia looks back at talented midfielders from the past. Life as player was very different when Manchester City inside forward Joe Hayes made his senior debut against Spurs in October...
by Malcolm Pheby | Apr 15, 2018 | Manchester, Music
iNostalgia remembers how Manchester lit the spark of the punk rock explosion in the late 1970s. It was described, quite simply, as the gig that changed the world. The date was June 4th, 1976. The venue was Manchester’s Lesser Free Trade Hall. The group on stage were...
by Malcolm Pheby | Apr 5, 2018 | Manchester, TV
Photographers uncovered some extraordinary sights when they went behind the scenes at Coronation Street 50 years ago this month. Not least was prim and proper Annie Walker, landlady of the Rovers Return, lying down on a bed with husband Jack – in broad daylight too!...
by Malcolm Pheby | Apr 4, 2018 | History, Manchester
iNostalgia looks back on 40 years at Strangeways prison from the execution of Margaret Allen in 1949 to the riot of 1990. The longest jail riot in British penal history started just after a Sunday morning sermon in Strangeways’ chapel. About 300 inmates had filed into...
