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1. One small step on the way to a huge career

Rochdale Observer, Monday 31 October 2005
NOW she is an international star with millions of album sales worldwide to her name. But in November 1980 Lisa Stansfield was another teenager looking for her big break.

2. Old pals make happy return to family life

Rochdale Observer, Saturday 20 August 2005
THE VJ Day celebrations had marked the end of conflict in the Second World War and the homecoming of many servicemen who had been prisoners of the Japanese.

3. Trucking into our transport history

Rochdale Observer, Monday 15 August 2005
ROBERT Parkhill has sent in another photograph from his collection charting the history of transport in Rochdale.

4. VJ Day: Missing Cyril was back from the dead

Rochdale Observer, Monday 15 August 2005
THE dreaded telegram from the War Office saying 'reported missing, presumed dead' devastated the Ashton family of Norden.

5. Charles drove off into steam history

Rochdale Observer, Monday 16 May 2005
CHARLES Hodgson hailed from Yorkshire. But in the 1870s he moved across the Pennines to Lancashire on finding himself a job at Watergrove, where a new reservoir was being built.
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