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Southport and District Chrysanthemum Society celebrates 75th birthday with a year of events and talks

Southport and District Chrysanthemum Society is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.  The society has been meeting and hosting events ever since 1950.  It is marking its 75th year with…

The Mayor of Sefton Cllr Mrs Beryl Lamont at the festival surrounded by people of all ages who had brought their teddy bears along to be judged in a bear competition

Nostalgia: 35 years since Southport Pier Festival saw families enjoy procession, drive-in movies and fireworks finale

Frank Bruno MBE officially opened Southport Flower Show in 1989 and had a carnation named after him

Champion boxer Frank Bruno MBE was a knockout opener at Southport Flower Show Diamond Jubilee

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This picture, taken in September 1982, shows Bill Tidy MBE (right) and Cllr Ralph Gregson (centre) and former Carlton Hotel owner and Southport Tourist Board Chairman Basil Law (left) enjoying a run on Southport Pier
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‘What a lovely humble man he was’ – Bill Tidy MBE remembered as exhibition opens at The Atkinson in Southport

Southport Visiter staff with copies of the newspaper next to the printing press at the Southport Visiter office on Tulketh Street in Southport
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Southport Visiter celebrates 180th birthday as one of UK’s oldest newspapers

Merseyrail's Southport line is celebrating 120 years of electric train services L&Y Stock - Ainsdale 1935. (Paul Gorton Collection)
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Merseyrail Southport line celebrates 120 years as world’s first inter-urban electric railway

Visitors to the Southport Game and Country Fayre in 1989. Photo Southport Visiter
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Southport Nostalgia: Popular Game and Country Fayres in Churchtown entertained thousands

The Palladium on Lord Street in Southport
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Southport Nostalgia: The Palladium Theatre was one of the largest and grandest in England when it opened in 1914

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Southport Nostalgia: Bill Tidy, Mr Men and Red Triangle Cricket team

Firefighters from Southport Fire Brigade oversee two schoolboys using a fire engine hose in March 1983
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Southport Nostalgia: Pontins, Southport Technical College and young firefighters

Staff at The Prince Of Wales Hotel on Lord Street in Southport in February 1981
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Southport Nostalgia: A look back at Southport hotels in the 1980s

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