Standfirst: With Euro 2020 approaching this summer, Past Life remembers Merseyside footballers who made the team of the tournament over the years
From Steve McManaman to Xabi Alonso, Merseyside players have a history of capturing the headlines at the European football championships. Many have been selected for the teams of the tournament from 1988 to 2012 – including Liverpool stalwart Steven Gerrard, Milan...
Then & Now – Merseyside streets
Welcome to Then and Now, where each week we compare images of Manchester streets, landmarks and buildings from bygone days with how they look today. This week our main image from May 1977 shows children celebrating the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in Carberry Road, Gorton, with splendid shields and hats.
Standfirst: With Euro 2020 approaching this summer, Nostalgia remembers Manchester footballers who made the team of the tournament over the years
From Peter Schmeichel to David Silva, Manchester players have a history of capturing the headlines at the European football championships. Many have been selected for the teams of the tournament from 1992 to 2012 – including Manchester United legends Cristiano...
20 years almost to the day, Peter Kay is pictured on the streets of Bolton
January 26, 2000: Bolton comedian and actor Peter Kay is pictured on the streets of his home town prior to the screening of his Channel 4 series That Peter Kay Thing later in the year. The spoof documentary was filmed in and around Bolton and featured Kay on subjects...
Standfirst: Past Life takes an affectionate look back at the career of Wallasey comic actor Deryck Guyler
Deryck Guyler, perhaps best known for playing cantankerous school caretaker Mr Potter in Please Sir, achieved a rare first for Merseyside in the 1940s. The Wallasey entertainer was the first to use an authentic Liverpudlian accent on radio when he voiced the character...
Do you know who won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1970?
January 21, 1970: Actress Glenda Jackson arrives in Manchester for the premiere of her movie Women in Love at the Studio 1 cinema. Based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence, the film was directed by Ken Russell and also starred Alan Bates, Oliver Reed and Jennie Linden....
Then & Now – The Embassy Club
Welcome to Then and Now, where each week we compare images of Manchester streets, landmarks and buildings from bygone days with how they look today. This week our main image from May 1977 shows children celebrating the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in Carberry Road, Gorton, with splendid shields and hats.
Look back to 1972: National Union of Miners protest at Agecroft power station.
January 17, 1972: Flying pickets from the National Union of Miners descend on Pendlebury to protest in front of Agecroft power station. Disruption occurred at power stations throughout the country during the miners’ strike, although vapour is still rising from the...
Standfirst: Nostalgia looks back on the career of John Cooper Clarke – the punk era Bard of Salford
Pam Ayres was probably an unlikely muse for Salford punk poet John Cooper Clarke. The two could not be more different. Ayres was a product of leafy Berkshire and her poems poked genteel fun at everyday family life. Cooper Clarke grew up in grimy Salford, honed his...
Julie Goodyear breezes into Manchester Airport ready to film
January 1, 1986: Julie Goodyear breezes into Manchester Airport ready to film more scenes as bar manager Bet Lynch in Granada’s long-running soap Coronation Street. Bet had taken over as manager of the Rovers Return in January 1985. The year 1986 would see her rescued...
Then & Now – Ascots Day Oxford Road
Welcome to Then and Now, where each week we compare images of Manchester streets, landmarks and buildings from bygone days with how they look today. This week our main image from May 1977 shows children celebrating the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in Carberry Road, Gorton, with splendid shields and hats.
Manchester United face Leeds United at Elland Road with Bobby and Jack Charlton
January 8, 1960: Bolton Wanderers footballer Ray Parry, left, enjoys a glass of milk with team-mate Peter Deaking before the Trotters’ Third Round FA Cup match against Bury. Inside forward Parry was injured in training and Deaking was prepared to play in his place if...
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