Category: Wartime
Clocking On 1939
iNostalgia looks back on women at work in Manchester during the war years of 1939 to 1945
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Prisoners cheered 1943
Our main image this week shows workmen cheering repatriated and wounded prisoners on a Red Cross train taking them from the Liverpool quayside. The date is October 1943.
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Women at War
iNostalgia looks back on women at war in Manchester from 1939 to 1945 with the aid of remarkable photos from the M.E.N. archive
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Women at War
iNostalgia looks back on women at war on Merseyside with the aid of remarkable photos from the Liverpool Echo archive
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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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24th November, 1931 ~ Pupils at Chetham’s School in Manchester get to sample the Christmas pudding mixture as the cook gets to work in the old ‘Norman’ kitchen 🎄
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📍 Manchester Town Hall, 7th November 1986.
A blaze of lights illuminates Manchester Town Hall, which is topped by a huge Santa Claus and sleigh. Who's looking forward to Christmas festivities in Manchester this year?
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