Category: Manchester
Women working at Old Trafford form own football team
Plus, Future Manchester United star Nicky Butt holds off the challenge of Eddie McCullagh during an FA Youth Cup match against Tranmere Rovers.
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Ready, Steady, Go!
iNostalgia remembers the pop programme Ready Steady Go! – and the Manchester and Liverpool bands who appeared on it.
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Valentine’s Day Quiz
Today is Valentine’s Day – and our nostalgia quiz this week has a distinctly romantic theme! Why not test your knowledge of couples in love in Manchester, mainly in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and compare your score with friends?
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Denis Law takes on Notts Forest this week in 1967
Plus we look back at men’s fashion in a Manchester Evening News Valentine’s Day fashion spread back in 1984.
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Puskas at Ringway 1965
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 four of the greatest footballers of all time gathered at Ringway Airport, Manchester, in March 1965.
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Remembering Brian Wilde
iNostalgia looks back on the TV career of Brian Wilde, veteran of Porridge, Last of the Summer Wine and The Dustbinmen
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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.
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Conditions almost Dickensian in Manchester school at end of war
Plus, he’s more familiar as a football manager now, but pictured during a 1986 match at Maine Road, Mick McCarthy was a central defender for Manchester City
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Dickenson Road Studios Quiz
It’s hard to believe that some of the BBC’s most popular programmes were once broadcast from a converted Wesleyan Chapel in Rusholme. How well do you remember Dickenson Road or the stars who recorded there? Why not test your knowledge in our weekly nostalgia quiz.
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Memories of the 50s Quiz
Our nostalgia quiz this week focuses on Manchester in the 1950s – a time when post-war austerity finally lifted, TV came into people’s lives and Britain’s first motorway was opened in the North West.
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Uwe Rosler
iNostalgia remembers two German signings who made a big impact at Maine Road in the 1990s – one forging an unbreakable bond with the fans
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Man City FA Cup 1969
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 the victorious Manchester City team parading the FA Cup on an open-top bus outside the Town Hall. The date is April 27th 1969.
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