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Memories

If you have a memory or an old photograph to contribute, please email melaverty@gmail.com and we will be pleased to post them on this page.


Guardian Football team – picture supplied by Peter Curley.

Back Row left to right: Bert Kelly, Tony McLaren, Alf Lee, Fred Alan,
Frank Laverty, Bob Waterhouse (Guardian journalist).
Front row: Dave Kenny, Ken Owen, Don Berry, Joe Paselly (Ice Cream Merchant, friend of Tony McLaren), Peter Curley.
Guardian Cricket team – picture kindly supplied by Don Berry

Roll Call circa 1983

Last MEN page produced in hot metal

The Last Post is played by Bill Leadbeater as the very last hot metal page goes under the stereo press.

Familiar faces

Curly Manton’s Poem

MEN Comps FC (1982)

Guardian Cricket Team – Back Row: Don Pickup, Jim Hall, Frank Laverty, Bert Kelly, Alf Lee, Unknown, Vinnie Smith, Unknown. Front Row: Unknown (Keith Duffy?), Don Berry, Paul Fitzpatrick, Fred Allen


Guardian North v South, circa 1971. Hugh Goring and Frank Laverty to open the innings.

Football Team pic supplied by Keith DuffyTony Holt, Terry Whelan, Curly Manton and Colin Palmer in the first computer room at 164 Deansgate.

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