Category: Wartime
Achieving Women
As Monday is International Women’s Day, iNostalgia remembers the inspirational life of pioneering politician Ellen Wilkinson
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Wartime Lord Street 1943
Welcome again to Then and Now, where each week we compare images of Merseyside streets, landmarks and buildings from bygone days with how they look today. Our image this week shows Lord Street in May 1943. Bomb damage from the Blitz is still in evidence as trams ply their way along the usually busy thoroughfare.
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Flashback to 1941
iNostalgia looks back on 1941 with the help of some remarkable images recently recovered from the Liverpool Echo archives
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Christmas Blitz
iNostalgia remembers two terrible nights in December 1940 when Manchester endured destruction on an unparalleled scale
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The Home Front
iNostalgia previews a timely and superbly illustrated book portraying the wartime resolve of Manchester and the nation
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Rock The Cradle
iNostalgia previews the Manchester publication of Rock the Cradle – the moving story of art therapist Marie Paneth who taught the orphans of Auschwitz
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Liverpool’s Home Guard
iNostalgia remembers the men (and women) who served in the Merseyside Home Guard when Britain was under threat of invasion
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November 1973 - A long queue of youngsters auditioning to be Ken Dodd’s Diddy Men winding round Manchester’s Opera House.
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SEPTEMBER 8, 1963: Freddie Garrity, lead singer of Manchester band Freddie and the Dreamers, relaxes backstage after an energetic performance at the Britannia Theatre, Great Yarmouth.
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