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21. Percy's plans take a dive
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 3 August 2006RESEARCHING archive council reports is fascinating, observing the amount of time and money allocated to projects which failed to come to fruition is surprising.
22. Golden days
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 27 July 2006IN our final feature on the town being granted a charter of incorporation in 1886 we look back to 1936. This was the year the inhabitants enthusiastically celebrated the Golden Jubilee of the Borough of Middleton.
23. Path from borough to town
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 20 July 2006LAST week we featured when Middleton was officially incorporated as a borough, way back in 1886.
24. Nearly last orders at the Boars
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 13 July 2006IT WAS cause for celebration 220 years ago this week.
25. Changing face of shopping
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 6 July 2006IN OUR feature published on 15 May entitled Pet Shop Girls, Marie Murrie requested information on McTighe's pet shop that was once on Wood Street.
26. Over the top, boys!
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 29 June 2006SATURDAY is the 90th anniversary of what historians still refer to as "the blackest day" in British military history - the start of the Battle of the Somme. As part of our ongoing series about Middleton and the First World War, we look at what happened on that infamous first day of July in 1916 …
27. In a Jam ... take 2
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 29 June 2006OUR feature on the C.W.S Preserve Factory published last December brought back memories to past employees.
28. Frank's war
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 22 June 2006AN ENTERTAINING war film will contain all the exciting elements such as being hit by suicide bombers, sorties attacking German U-boats and edge of the seat situations where an aircraft limps back to the carrier. This week Bygone Days speaks to a reader who experienced all of these things first-hand during the Second World War ... and took these fascinating photographs in the heat of battle,
29. The 'Pals' prepare to face the foe
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 22 June 2006REMEMBER the Battle of Flodden! This was the rallying cry of the Mayor of Middleton at a recruitment meeting in November 1914.
30. Pet Shop Girls
Middleton Guardian, Thursday 15 June 2006OUR Easter quiz brought in a bumper crop of entries ...