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It is 30 years since the very first Vauxhall Astra rolled off the production line at Ellesmere Port. LAURIE STOCKS-MOORE looks back on its historic role in the town's fortunes...
SIX GENERATIONS and 2.8 million units later, the Astra has established itself as the fourth most popular car ever sold in Britain and accounts for almost one in 20 of all vehicles registered in the UK.
The latest mark six version, launched last year, is Britain's best-selling UK-built car.
Its popularity has single-handedly sealed the survival of the Ellesmere plant and has kept hundreds of locals in jobs over the decades.
ONE man who looks back with great fondness on life in Runcorn's Dukesfield in the late 1950s and early 60s is Rob Ellison who, as a boy, lived at the bottom of Blantyre Street.
Rob enjoyed reading the piece written by Lew Darlington, which appeared here earlier this month, and kindly sent me his own recollections of life 'under the arches'.
The Sizzling Seventies also took a grip on Ellesmere Port and in this week's Nostalgia there is evidence that a lot was happening in the town during this exciting decade.
The Chester branch of the Family History Society of Cheshire celebrated its 40th anniversary with a special meeting for members and guests at the Cheshire County Sports Club.
The inaugural meetings of the Family History Society of Cheshire took place in Chester in 1969 so both the society and the Chester branch were celebrating the same anniversary.
MINDFUL of the fact that Grange Infants and Junior Schools will eventually integrate with the Grange Comprehensive, Runcorn reader Paul Snelson wanted to know when both the infants and juniors opened.
THIS week's Pioneer Nostalgia pictures span the fifties, sixties and seventies, with some memorable images of canteen staff in the town, a jive club, a youth club and coronation street party.
Residents of 'little' Bailey Avenue at a street party for the Queen's coronation in 1953.
EX-CHAMPION boxer, Runcorn's own Robbie Reid, will be among the guests when former Brookvale Comprehensive School pupils celebrate what would have been the school's 40th anniversary.
The reunion is being held at the Crest Hotel on Sunday, December 27, from 7pm-1am, and the main aim is to raise money towards Halton Haven.
THIS is the fourth in our series of pictures from the old St Patrick's RC Junior School.
This is the class of 1971-72 with their teacher, Mrs Gray.
THIS is the latest photograph in our short series featuring classes of 1971-72 at the old St Patrick's RC School, West Bank.
My apologies to readers for mistakenly thinking the pictures had been taken at West Bank Junior School. The backdrop to the photos should have made it obvious to me that they were, in fact, taken at St Pat's.
THE second in our photographs taken at St Patrick's Junior School in 1971-72 shows the class with their teacher, Mrs Evans.
The pictures were taken by former community nurse Joan Hawkins, who died earlier this year at the age of 90. Her partner, Jack Shaw, of Rainhill, provided the photos.
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