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1. Ex-brigade sister was a proud Rochdalian
Rochdale Observer, Tuesday 30 October 2007A FORMER serving sister with St John Ambulance Brigade died in Springhill Hospice after a brave battle with leukaemia. She was 73.
2. Hundreds turn out for popular villager
Rochdale Observer, Tuesday 30 October 2007A VILLAGE said a sad goodbye to one of its most popular characters at Rochdale Crematorium this week.
3. How protestors won the first Ding battle
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 27 October 2007NEWS this week that moves are being made to re-open a Lanehead quarry have evoked memories of what happened in 1995, the last time efforts were made to resurrect mining at Ding Quarry.
4. Sportsman who lived dream of being a teacher
Rochdale Observer, Tuesday 23 October 2007A POPULAR former teacher who worked at St Joseph’s Middle School and Bishop Henshaw High School – now St Cuthbert’s – for more than 20 years has died aged 74.
5. John was first president of Littleborough Lions
Rochdale Observer, Tuesday 23 October 2007JOHN Cummings, one of the founder members of Littleborough Lions, has died at his home in Florida.
6. Crowds turn up to watch ... television
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 20 October 2007A WINDSWEPT field opposite the Moorcock Inn, Newhey, on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border, was the target for scores of men, women and children one sunny weekend in July 1960 – as this look at the Observer archives for that year shows.
7. Farmer's Churchill memorabilia is a load of old bull
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 13 October 2007WINSTON Churchill, the most famous Briton who ever lived according to a recent poll, was well known for his British ‘bulldog’ tenacity, especially in times of war.
8. Wonderful technology at the press of a button
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 13 October 2007COUNCIL leader Alan Taylor has been in politics for quite a few years – and seen a lot of changes – but has probably seen no change as far-reaching as the impact of computerisation and global technology.
9. Miles of smiles for pensioners
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 6 October 2007IT WAS sunny smiles all the way in December 1972 as Mrs M Robinson and Mrs A Howarth joined more than 500 Rochdale pensioners for a day out in London.
10. 'Sad end of an era, but I still have treasured memories'
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 6 October 2007ALLAN Tattersall recalls life growing up in Rochdale during the 1930s and 1940s so clearly that it could have been yesterday.
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