Recently I purchased on eBay a number of tickets for dinner dances. Some of them were described as a 'Grand Dance', another three are described as a 'Staff Dinner and Dance' and three of them are numbered the 7th (1954), 8th (1955) and 9th (1956) Annual Dance. One of them has a serviette inside, the kind of thing you would wrap a piece of birthday cake in. 

Things have changed a lot over the last few years on this corner with Scotty Bank and Bramston Street. Gone has the old Salford Mill which is the dominating building in the photograph. This for many years was the home of Walter Robinson Electricals. Some readers may remember he has a shop on Park Street and before that his shop was at the corner of Hangram Street with Bradford Road.. 

The Mayor Councillor Herbert Prest and his wife the Mayoress are visiting the Sandholme Crescent Centre at Hipperholme.  This was during their tenure of office 1966-67, a mere 58 years ago.  How many of the residents can you recognise - back row 5th from the right is Mrs Lucy Thornton, who lived on Towngate opposite the Hipperholme Grammar School. But like many others once their back to back terraced houses were demolished to build some new flats on the site they all had to be rehoused.   

A lot has changed since this well known town centre pub closed down and gradually began to fall apart.