by Malcolm Pheby | Jul 13, 2018 | This Week
1992 July 10: Manchester United and England footballer Bobby Charlton jokingly squares up to boxing legends Frank Bruno, left, and Henry Cooper in London. The sporting greats came together at a reception to mark the Queen’s 66th birthday. Both heavyweights were...
by Malcolm Pheby | Jul 4, 2018 | This Week
1987 July 1: The banner says it all as Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson and chairman Martin Edwards unveil new players Viv Anderson, left, and Brian McClair, right, at Old Trafford. Full back Anderson, who came from Arsenal for £250,000, was Ferguson’s first...
by Malcolm Pheby | Jun 27, 2018 | This Week
1945 June 27: Two workers from the Women’s Land Army are busy sawing wood in a Manchester timber farm in the final year of World War II. The Land Army replaced men called up for military service and had 80,000 members by 1944. Cutting up the tree trunk in our...
by Malcolm Pheby | Jun 20, 2018 | This Week
1971 June 23: Staff at St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, line up to meet the Queen on her visit to the city. Welcoming her is Sir Cyril Harrison, chairman of the board of governors of United Manchester Hospitals. The Queen also went on an early walkabout when she...
by Malcolm Pheby | Jun 13, 2018 | This Week
June 15 1996: Windows are left blown out in Manchester city centre on Saturday morning after the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a 3,000lb bomb at 11.17am. The bomb, left in a van in Corporation Street, was the biggest detonated in Great Britain...
