All the latest news, business reports, and education stories from the Prestwich and Whitefield

Estate kept in the family

THATCHED DELIGHT: The cottage on the north side of the Philips Park estate

1:21pm Wednesday 21st July 2010

THIS charming photograph is dated 1964 and shows a thatched cottage on the north side of the Philips Park estate.

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25 years ago: From the Guide files of July 19, 1985

1:22pm Wednesday 21st July 2010

* THE Government announced proposals to turn the Bury-to-Manchester rail line into a supertram light rail track.

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25 years ago: From the Guide files of July 12, 1985

12:33pm Wednesday 14th July 2010

* A TEACHERS’ strike could not be solved by paying teachers two-thirds more as it would cost too much, councillors said.

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Wealth of trade with Africa

12:32pm Wednesday 14th July 2010

THE YEAR was 1905 when this shot captured Poppythorn Lane in Prestwich.

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25 years ago: From the Guide files of July 5, 1985

1:29pm Wednesday 7th July 2010

* POLICE stepped up their fight to keep drug traffickers out of Prestwich and Whitefield after fears about the spread of drug dealing.

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Stand Grammar’s rescue

1:14pm Wednesday 7th July 2010

MANY readers will have fond memories of Stand Grammar School as seen in this week’s photographs.

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THIS week, we capture shots of St Margaret’s Church in Prestwich as it was a century ago. The church was built to ease the burden on St Mary’s Church, which was struggling to cope with the rapid growth of the population in the middle of the 19th century.