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1. Bar lounge meant it was less tea for vicar
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 29 March 2008BACK in the 1960s, at a time when the pace of life seemed a lot more gentle than it is now, when friends called on the Vicar of All Saints’ Church, Hamer, for a chat they were able to join him in drinking something stronger than vicarage tea.
2. Tony travels back on trams' history
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 15 March 2008IN TRANSPORT terms, they had only a relatively short life. Some steam locomotives, for example, were hard at work for more than half a century, many of them travelling well over two million miles during their lifetime.
3. Finger points at copper robbers
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 8 March 2008MANY Rochdale homes and businesses have been victims of lead thefts recently as thieves have been trying to cash in on the currently high price for the metal.
4. Going extra mile to serve mobile meals
Rochdale Observer, Friday 29 February 2008NOW in its 51st year, the meals on wheels service in Rochdale is still going strong, testimony to the hard working members of the Women’s Royal Voluntary Service (WRVS).
5. Mr Whippy helped keep winter at bay
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 12 January 2008EVEN on the darkest of winter nights it is not unusual to hear the approach of an ice cream van, its loudspeaker brassily announcing its arrival.
6. Eric brought taste of rural life to canal
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 1 September 2007IT’S more than five years ago that the Rochdale Canal was officially reopened to navigation after a £15M facelift, making the canal navigable for its entire 33-mile length from central Manchester to Sowerby Bridge.
7. Jack of tall trade - and masterful too
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 28 July 2007LONG before Bolton steeplejack Fred Dibnah starred on our television screens, enthralling viewers as he worked on great chimney tops or felled them with a deal of panache that endeared him to all, a Rochdale steeplejack also enjoyed the public spotlight as he went about his truly unique business.
8. Journey down river wasn't plain sailing
Rochdale Observer, Wednesday 23 May 2007ROCHDALIANS were introduced in the summer of 1985 to the town's own answer to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in the shape of 14-year-olds Shaun Rowland and Jimmy McCabe.
9. Peace shattered by convoy of hippies
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 12 May 2007IT'S generally acknowledged that flower power - the slogan used by hippies to promote peace - began in the summer of 1968 in San Francisco parks.
10. Youngsters flocked to match of the day
Rochdale Observer, Monday 26 March 2007WITH the new Wembley Stadium set to host this year's FA Cup Final in May after the prolonged shenanigans of cost, over-runs and delay, it's perhaps an opportune time to have a trawl through the Observer archives this week to a very popular event much looked forward to by the town's schoolboys in the 1950s and 60s.