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My First Job series: Dining Hall Porter

Features Jodie Smith -
Next up in our First Jobs series, our Salford reporter, Paul Sherlock, shares his memories. What was your first job? "My first experience of work...

My First Job series: Mining with the National Coal Board

Features Jodie Smith -
One of our readers, Alex Channon from Swinton, shares his memories about his first-ever job with us. What was your first job?  My first job...
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Taking a trip down memory lane as our readers share stories about their first jobs

Features Jodie Smith -
Do you remember what your first job was after leaving school? Here, Talking About My Generation readers reminisce about their first-ever jobs, with memories...
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Hearth and home: Mantelpiece exhibition gets pride of place

Bolton Carole Ogden -
Bolton Museum’s new exhibition is set to make visitors feel right at home - by showcasing household objects of 1930s Britain. ‘Mantelpiece Observations’, opening September...
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Mantelpiece memories

Bolton Carole Ogden -
Bolton reporter Carole Ogden shares her mantelpiece memories as part of the latest exhibition at Bolton Museum; "Mantelpiece Observations", opening September 12 "I first got...
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Remembering Trafford Park Hotel: Childhood memories, finding love and ghostly guests

Manchester Andrea Maria Petrie -
On Third Avenue down in Trafford Park, there stands a building unlike any other around it. Towering above the rest, the first thing you'll...
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Aztecs, Parma Violets and Spiras: Survivors and relics of confectionery history

Foodies Ted Peskett -
Here are some of the most adored chocolates and sweets from last 100 years. Some have survived and some have been sentenced to confectionery...
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Memories and the history of Manchester’s Windrush Generation

Nostalgia Ted Peskett -
On the morning of June 22, 1948, the HMT Empire Windrush pulled in to Tilbury docks, Essex, carrying 802 hopeful Caribbean migrants on board....
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The cast of Corrie returns to the cobbles and we take a trip down memory lane

Manchester Andrea Maria Petrie -
The Coronation Street cast has returned to the cobbles after being in lockdown. Over the past few months, the show had relied on its...
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Love Me Do….The Beatles & Roy Orbison gig that rocked my world in Manchester, 1963

Manchester Pauline Smith -
Radcliffe reporter, Pauline Smith, shares treasured memories of seeing the Fab Four perform in Manchester in 1963.  Becoming a teenager in 1961 was really a...
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Autumn in Our Place

Poetry Corner Pauline Smith -
25 weeks now in lockdown springtime full of sunny days quiet roads and streets like the 50s the shock of Covid new ways of living In Our Place   So many...
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What’s For Tea? Pauline’s ‘breadie’ recipe

Foodies Pauline Smith -
If we are not talking about music in the Talking About My Generation newsroom then we are thinking about our bellies and sharing our...
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Our Talking about My Generation Top of the Pops with Pauline Smith

Features Kirsty Day -
You have probably already guessed it but our newsroom is filled with music fans, so we now have our very own Top of the...
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New mental health services launch to support ethnic minorities

News Kirsty Day -
Greater Manchester’s residents who identify as being from ethnic minority backgrounds can now access extra mental health support during the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to...
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