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25 years ago: Taken from the Guide files of January 11,1985

1:04pm Thursday 14th January 2010

* DESPITE 122 objections from neighbours, the council passed plans to create a car park on woodland off Nursery Road, Prestwich.

All quiet up the junction

STREET SCENE: Looking along Bury Old Road towards Besses junction

1:02pm Thursday 14th January 2010

THIS week, we look back at a view of Besses Junction featured in a photograph taken from Bury Old Road during the 1960s.

On this day

3:33pm Thursday 7th January 2010

l—A WOULD-BE thief failed in his an attempt to rob a 32-year-old man in Kings Road, Sedgley, when the man refused to let go of a cash bag.

Pupils: Don’t merge schools

Pupils: Don’t merge schools

3:34pm Thursday 7th January 2010

FIFTH formers at a local school threatened with amalgamation collected a petition asking the council to change its mind.

Road that was destined for major traffic

Road that was destined for major traffic

11:50am Thursday 31st December 2009

THIS week, we feature five views of Prestwich Village.

25 years ago: Taken from the Guide files of December 17, 1984

12:31pm Thursday 17th December 2009

* SAINSBURY’S in the Longfield Centre, Prestwich, removed a quantity of turkeys after an animal rights’ group claimed to have tampered with them.

Housing past its use-by date

PREFABS: This picture was taken in 1967

12:30pm Thursday 17th December 2009

THE YEAR was 1967 when this shot captured prefabricated houses constructed in Heaton Park after the Second World War.

‘Sylvan’ view of the Clough in 1908

‘Sylvan’ view of the Clough in 1908

12:05pm Thursday 26th November 2009

THE DATE was August 1, 1908, when this beautifully hand-coloured postcard of Prestwich Clough was franked at Prestwich Post Office.

25 Years Ago: From the Guide files of November 30, 1984

12:06pm Thursday 26th November 2009

IT was predicted that Whitefield could one day have its own open-air market subject to a Bury Council feasibility study.

25 Years Ago

11:16am Thursday 19th November 2009

l—MORE than 1,000 ratepayers were cleared after a court objected to Bury Council’s decision to penalise those who did not pay on time after the payment date was brought forward 14 days.

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Could it be that our civic halls are targeted, because as well as exercise, some activities can be described as entertainment. This would be to ignore the social side on which communities aspire and expand. Without civic halls, communities would in the main, have to rely on small church halls and clubs or join expensive health centres. The enlarged social and warm atmosphere would evaporate, probably gone forever. − Alf Wentworth, Prestwich

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Nobel prize-winning economist, Joseph Stilgitz, put it like this: “Crisis policies were working but now the bankers are back in charge.”  − George Heron Bury Green Party

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