Category: Manchester
Santos at Ringway 1962
Our main image this week shows Brazilian club side Santos lining up for the camera after touching down at Manchester’s Ringway Airport in October 1962.
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Old Trafford war damage 1945
Our main image this week shows war damage caused by Luftwaffe bombs at Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United. The date is September 1945.
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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
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Congestion in Manchester’s King Street
Plus this week In 1978 Conservative party leader Margaret Thatcher comes face to face with industry when she watches workers operating a press in a Manchester factory.
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Manchester 50s
Manchester in the 1950s is the focus for our popular nostalgia quiz this week. It was the decade that saw the rise of TV, the end of rationing and the birth of rock and roll.
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VJ Day Party 1945
There’s a poignant story behind our main image of VJ Day celebrations in Birch Road, Crumpsall, on Wednesday August 15th 1945…
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Manchester 60s
Our weekly nostalgia quiz this week focuses on the 1960s with questions ranging from football legend Pele playing in goal in a muddy Bolton public park to Bobbie the Coronation Street cat.
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Euro 96 Manchester Edition
To mark the delayed start of Euro 2020, iNostalgia remembers when the tournament came to Manchester 25 years ago this month
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Music in the 1950s
iNostalgia remembers the Manchester music stars taking their first steps in the 1950s – and one making a major comeback
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Whit Walks at Town Hall 1960
Our main image this week shows an array of adults and children milling around the Town Hall entrance during the Whit Walks’ celebrations of 1960.
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Love on the Dole
iNostalgia finds out why the kitchen-sink drama owes its place in popular culture to the streets of Salford
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Trident at Ringway
Our main image this week shows a British European Airways (BEA) Trident jet ready for take-off on the apron of Manchester’s Ringway Airport in June 1967.
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