Our thanks go to Aidan Prince for taking the time to scan these and send them in... Aidan found this booklet in a skip years ago.. so glad he picked it out.
If you have had such a find, be it in a skip or just at the back of a drawer, then please let us know.. Publications such as the one above must still exist in drawers and cupboards and we would like very much to feature them on here. :)
Awesome find Aidan. I seem to remember this booklet cover, am almost positive that we had a copy at home in our crap drawer! A very 60’s feel to the artists impression of the market place…..I remember the Lyric Restaurant used to be upstairs over the Mall, next to the old Gas showroom. It takes me back….excellent post guys.
ReplyDeleteBarry in Oz, those phone numbers take me back. Mine used to be Woodley 4730.
ReplyDeletei remember that booklet as well i think it had the coat o arms and the word hyde in big letters on the front cover
ReplyDeletethese finds are so important as when people have died etc these sort of things normally end up in the bin
excellent
This is the Hyde Offficial Guide. There were various editions. I have a copy in pristine condition from 1965 with a fold out map in the back.
ReplyDeleteI also have it and you posted the front cover shot of the proposed new look market of the 60s.
ReplyDeleteThe two cars illustrated in the advert for the Turbine Service Station are a Triumph 2000 and a Triumph Herald. The Triumph Herald was produced from 1959 and the Triumph 2000 was introduced at the London Motor Show in October 1963. The telephone numbers in the adverts are all alpha-numeric and these were abandoned in 1966 in favour of all-figure numbering. So this version of the guide would be from about the same date as the 1965 one owned by Marjorie.
ReplyDeleteThe Triumph Herald appears to be a 12/50 Skylight Saloon. It had a folding vinyl 'sunshine' roof. It was produced between 1963 and 1967. Happy memories driving back from South Wales with the roof open.
ReplyDeleteThe advert for Wellerman brothers struck a chord with me. My mum Lilian Stafford worked in the office there for many years .Mrs Capper was another office worker there. This would be in the 1960's.
ReplyDeleteShe used to go to the bank with a 'little old man'- her words, as her bodyguard and she would carry the money for all the men's wages back in her shopping bag! Ann Bacon(Stafford)
She was particularly proud of the building they did on top of Snowdon.
The advert for Wellerman brothers struck a chord with me. My mum Lilian Stafford worked in the office there for many years .Mrs Capper was another office worker there. This would be in the 1960's.
ReplyDeleteShe used to go to the bank with a 'little old man'- her words, as her bodyguard and she would carry the money for all the men's wages back in her shopping bag! Ann Bacon(Stafford)
She was particularly proud of the building they did on top of Snowdon.