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10:16am Friday 11th July 2008
The following PLANNING APPLICATIONS have been received by the Council. They may be inspected at Trafford Direct, Waterside House, Sale Waterside, Sale during opening hours, viz. Monday to Friday 9.00 am to 5.00 pm and Saturday (9.00 am to 1.00 pm).
Comments (0)We shall remember them
11:00am Sunday 11th November 2007
REMEMBRANCE Sunday coincides with the 90th anniversary of the end of the 1917 British offensive in Flanders - from which some 400 men from Trafford did not return.
A list of the fallen at Flanders 1917
5:30pm Wednesday 7th November 2007
Compiled by George Cogswell, who will undertake a database search for anyone interested.
Anniversary for Flanders fallen
11:48am Wednesday 7th November 2007
REMEMBRANCE Sunday coincides with the 90th anniversary of the end of the 1917 British offensive in Flanders - from which some 400 men from Trafford did not return.
The Chapel Street war heroes
11:37am Wednesday 7th November 2007
TRAFFORD Through Time has obtained rare film archive of the day crowds gathered to honour a group of Altrincham men heralded by King George V as the "bravest street in the country".
The Chapel Street story
11:28am Wednesday 7th November 2007
THERE was nothing special about Chapel Street in Altrincham when the First World War broke out. It was full of people who worked hard and played hard, usually at the nearby Rose and Shamrock Inn.
Old Trafford's artistic roots
2:35pm Monday 8th October 2007
IT was the largest art show ever staged in Britain and it was held in Old Trafford, in a temporary glass pavilion the size of London's Crystal Palace, in 1857.
The day the space race came to Trafford
12:05am Thursday 4th October 2007
THIS month marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the space race.
Captured on camera - Gagarin in Trafford
12:04am Thursday 4th October 2007
FOOTAGE of Gagarin's visit was captured on camera and has been lovingly restored after being rescued from a skip.
Rediscovering Trafford's buried history
12:59pm Friday 24th August 2007
SALE and Brooklands cemetery was first opened in August 1862 and has many interesting and famous residents.
Centenary celebrations for Gorse Hill Primary
4:35pm Friday 3rd August 2007
AS Stretford's first school, Gorse Hill Primary holds a special place in the town's history and in 2005 it celebrated its centenary.
'Grand unveil' of the Stretford Arndale
3:04pm Friday 3rd August 2007
EVERYONE remembers Mohammed Ali's Rumble in the Jungle' and Thriller in Manila' but how many Messenger readers recall his Grand Unveil of the Arndale'?
Timperley mum talks of Falklands pride
2:36pm Friday 3rd August 2007
A Timperley mother says she is "immensely proud" of the role her sons played in the Falkland's war victory.
Trafford's forgotten hero
2:25pm Friday 3rd August 2007
MESSENGER can reveal the incredible story of Trafford's "forgotten hero".
Look back at time - Trafford's American Civil War hero
1:00pm Friday 3rd August 2007
THE GRANDDAUGHTER of a Trafford man who was the first British person to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honour - after fighting in the American Civil War - received a timely surprise last year (2006).
When the railway came to town
12:00pm Friday 3rd August 2007
HORSE omnibus services and canal passenger boats were serving Altrincham by the early 1840s, and by the end of that decade the railway came to town.
Stretford's 'Hardrock' down memory lane
11:30am Friday 3rd August 2007
TRAFFORD'S old school rockers are being urged to get-in-touch with any tales or memorabilia they have about a venue where Led Zeppelin and Ziggy Stardust once performed.
Confessions of an English Opium Easter
1:47pm Monday 9th July 2007
EX-MANCHESTER Grammar School pupil Thomas de Quincey described the Altrincham market scene in his book Confessions of an English Opium Easter'.
Trafford's old entertainment halls
4:44pm Sunday 1st July 2007
THE Regal in Manchester Road, Altrincham, could seat 2,000, and was regarded as one of the Manchester area's finest cinemas. Opened by Lord Stamford in 1931, it was destroyed by fire in 1956.
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