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31. Goodnight Mr Tom
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 15 November 2007RECENTLY I had a reminder of an incident that occurred during my time as a pupil at Durnford Street School.
32. Have your say
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 8 November 2007"I LOOK forward to thumbing through the pages of the Guardian each week,” is a comment from an 89-year-old Alkrinton resident.
33. Moving memories
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 1 November 2007GEORGE Orwell wrote in his novel, '1984,' that the government, 'Big Brother', would be watching the population and cameras would be recording our every move. Here in Middleton it was Tony Robinson in 1964 who was walking around the town capturing some fascinating moving images with his cine camera.
34. Saturday blues
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 25 October 2007IT’S not that long ago that townsfolk would spend Sunday afternoons having a leisurely walk through the green fields and country lanes that once surrounded the town.
35. Oz memories
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 18 October 2007FRANK Jackson who was born at 54 Boardman Lane, Rhodes, has decided that the time is right to put pen to paper and record his childhood memories of growing up in Rhodes.
36. An Avenue of opportunity
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 11 October 2007IT WAS during the clean up operation following the Middleton flood of July 1927 that the council required a place to dispose of the tons of vile smelling mud and silt that carpeted the centre of town.
37. Nostalgia
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 11 October 2007WE TAKE a stroll down memory lane to look back into Middleton's history, and to find out more about the events and people that have shaped the town throughout the 20th century, through historic pictures ...
38. Soil soaked in the blood of Middleton men
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 4 October 2007"MEN stumbled forward through mud and slime. At every step they sank over the boot-tops in sodden soil; not a few sank waist-deep in the yawning, water-filled shell holes - but they staggered on with the grim persistency which is the outstanding attribute of the average Englishman and the source of wonder to foreign nations." This appalling, but chest-swelling, scene is painted by Major Chesnutt-Chesney, officer commanding the Middleton company of the 2/6th Lancashire Fusiliers who attacked the infamous Passchendaele Ridge on the morning of October 9, 1917.
39. Groom took the hough
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 4 October 2007THIS week we feature some recently unearthed photographs of the Moston area.
40. Aah, biscuits!
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 27 September 2007CO-OPERATION - 'working together for the good of all' - proved to be a successful business strategy for the Co-operative Wholesale Society.