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1. Let it snow ...
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 20 December 2007I HAVE to confess that for a number of years I was the person who organised the building of the Christmas Crib in Middleton Shopping Centre.
2. It's quiz time
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 13 December 2007THIS week we have four great prizes up for grabs in our festive quiz.
3. The shops of Christmas past
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 6 December 2007SHORTLY the shops will be a hive of activity with Christmas only two weeks away. This week Bygone Days takes a nostalgic look back at the town centre shops in the late 1950s.
4. A bird's eye view
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 29 November 2007AERIAL photographs always prompt our readers to send in favourable comments.
5. Hard day's night
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 22 November 2007I SHOULD have realised that when my mate Alan McEwen invited me to a night out it wouldn’t be spent in a bar enjoying a few drinks. It was back in the 1960s at a time when I was employed by the Co-op that Alan had started his own boiler repair business.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.