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1. Our Stan was the man for these clubbers
Rochdale Observer, Monday 23 May 2005STAN was the man as far as Oulder Hill High School pupils were concerned.
2. Keeping watch on danger from skies
Rochdale Observer, Monday 23 May 2005OUR special VE Day supplement brought back wartime memories for Thelma Davies of Amy Street.
3. Charles drove off into steam history
Rochdale Observer, Monday 16 May 2005CHARLES 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.
4. £400 bought depot - and well
Rochdale Observer, Monday 16 May 2005ROCHDALE'S 7,239-square-yard steam tramcar depot, built of brick and stone, was sold at auction at the Thatched House Hotel, Newmarket Place, Manchester, for the princely sum of £400.
5. Kids went partying – big time
Rochdale Observer, Friday 6 May 2005IT WAS called Rochdale's biggest children's party and certainly seemed to live up to its billing.
6. Beat the heat with a real cool haircut
Rochdale Observer, Monday 2 May 2005MANY people love sampling the fresh air in the great outdoors - though it is doubtful any would have combined it with having a hairdo.
7. Warm welcome for ex-POWs
Rochdale Observer, Monday 2 May 2005FOR more than five years they had been in the hands of the enemy - but now they were set for a proper warm welcome home.
8. A tour of Europe in the shadow of war
Rochdale Observer, Monday 2 May 2005THE Observer was more than happy to help when John Hiley contacted us for information about his cycling dad, Henry.
9. Keeping the war machine fed
Rochdale Observer, Monday 2 May 2005THEY say an army marches on its stomach and with the country at war it was vital that all avenues to feed the people were explored.
10. Papal honour for an act of real class
Rochdale Observer, Monday 2 May 2005THIS week tributes were being paid to the new Pope - Benedict XVI.
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