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The West Yorkshire Training Group, of Somerset Road, won a national award in 1986 for organising training places for female motor mechanics. Pictured under the bonnet are mechanics and motor parts salespeople (from left, back) Joanne Crossley, Beverley B
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Getting to know they first computer are these children from Beech Junior, Infant and Nursery School, Golcar. They are (from left) Paul McAvinue, Mark Zieba, Joanne Taylor. Jason Earnshaw, Adele Jackson, Daniel Shaw and Sarah Turner.
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Huddersfield New College students earned 13 Oxbridge places this year. The pupils were Kavita Bahsin, William Lumb, Joanne Phillips, Danny Sutcliffe, Steven Sharp, Georgina Austen, Robert Jackson, Virginia Lee, Martin Moyle, Lesley Smith, Paul Townend, Frederica Thoedoulou and Lara Wood.
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Waverley House Mencap Club members enjoy a social evening.
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The Good Old Days were recaptured in a production by Meltham Women's Institute Drama Group. The producer was Barbara Sheard. These cast members were not named in the original caption.
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Children and helpers at Milnsbridge Playgroup celebrated their first anniversary this week in 1986 - and the birthday of one member, three-year-old Faye Lucas
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Joan Restall, dinner lady at Dalton Infant School, retired this month in 1986 after 21 years' service. She was presented with a garden chair, a plant and farewell cards.
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Linthwaite Joy Club members Joe and edith Cartwright get the VIP treatment from tea-pourer Steve Markham, Colne Valley Round Table chairman, at the club's annual treat in January, 1986
THIS week we conclude our two-part look at the early weeks of 1986, a year we chose for no reason other than you all looked a lot younger and most of you were smiling fit to crack the camera lens.
The year may not immediately have that All Our Yesterdays feel, but the children above will be in the early 30s now and their parents and helpers possibly in their 50s and 60s.
Times and hairstyles have moved on.
The trouble is that too many of you looked like George Michael, Boy George, or the lads from Duran Duran.
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The girls have that Belinda Carlisle and Tiffany look bouffant hairstyles, with a bit of back-combing going on.
A glance at the charts remember when we had a Top 10? evokes the era.
The band Europe had a hit with The Final Countdown. Now would be a good time to re-release that, though its not likely Greece and Portugal would appreciate the irony.
Madonna was belting away with True Blue and Papa Dont Preach.
Doctor and the Medics had a number one with Spirit In The Sky and the Pet Shop Boys West End Girls was a chart topper exactly 26 years ago.
How time flies!