LifestylegalleryNostalgia: 1988 (Gallery)BookmarkShareLifestyleByGavin Castle09:04, 11 MAR 2014Updated09:13, 24 JUN 2014A legend which says that the villages of Slaithwaite once tried to retrieve the moon's reflection from the canal to parade it through the village was re-enacted during a procession of lanterns at the weekend. A large lantern, representing the moon was hoisted from the canal, placed on a horse and cart and driven through the village. Pictured with their lantern are, from left, Fill Burton, Susan Shaw, Natalie O'Hara and Alice Shaw. 27th February 1988.1 of 19In good voice, Mirfield Knowl First School youngsters, from left: Laura Coates, Scott Croisdale, Helen Shires, Stephen Ashworth and Laura Tennant during the Kirklees Primary School Music festival at Huddersfield Town Hall. 22nd March 1988.2 of 19These young pupils at Royds Hall High School, and teacher Mr Adrian Mullany, plan to forsake their favourite foods next week. They will join thousands throughout West Yorkshire in a 24-hour famine on March 11, hoping to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds to help starving people in Africa. It will be the third famine organised by the international relief and development agency World Vision. 29th February 1988.3 of 19From left Mona Chan yu Chun, Velly Intan and Michelle Li Cho Man discuss a Chinese meal with Mrs Anne Tinker, senior lecturer Food Preparation during the Kirklees multicultural festival. 2nd March 1988.4 of 19Mrs Piala Ray takes the children through an Indian dance class during the Kirklees multicultural festival. 2nd March 1988.5 of 19Following the Yellow Brick Road... Julie Jackson, Ruth Kaye, Karen Dawson, Susan Ellis and Philippa Ashfield are some of the Salendine Nook High School pupils involved in a production of The Wizard of Oz. Some 80 children have taken part in performances and they have designed and made their own costumes. 1st March 1988.6 of 19Dunkirk veterans (from left) Mr Jim Chadwick, Capt Harold Dugdale and Mr George Behan point out the beaches where men were picked up by a flotilla of ships and boats during the evacuation to teacher Mr Rob Hodgson and members of his first-form English class. One of the maps is a modern day issue but the other was actually carried by one of the veterans at the time of Dunkirk.2nd March 1988.7 of 19Fireman N Stephen Baxter from Skelmanthorpe station, gives an insight into his adventurous job to Highburton First School pupils Matthew Hughes and Adele Walker this morning. Skelmanthorpe firemen, and a fire engine, visited the school today and pupils were in their element as they sat in the drivers seat, tried on fireman¿ helmets and were shown how the fire-fighting equipment was used. 2nd March 1988.8 of 19Martine Bochat (centre) gets a lesson on the sitar from Virendra Bhatt (left) and Nicholas Proctor during the Kirklees multicultural festival. 2nd March 1988.9 of 19North Star steel drummer Kelvin Benjamin helps Sarah Stead play the soprano drum during the Kirklees multicultural festival. 2nd March 1988.10 of 19Youngsters from Denby Dale First School got a special glimpse of life down a coal mine today. With students from Bretton Hall College the children, including Andrew Harpin pictured being kitted out by mine guide Ian Thomas, visited the disused Caphouse Colliery, which opens as a museum in June. The 80-strong party gave the staff a trial run at dealing with crowds in the underground section of the museum. 3rd March 1988.11 of 19Mother's Day plants with a difference... Chris Green is seen (centre) with other Cubs of the 15th Huddersfield (St Hilda's) pack, who did a good deed of older members of the congregation at St Hilda's Church, Cowcliffe. The youngsters decorated plant pots with filler and shells in January, planted them with crocuses, which are now coming out, and yesterday, Mother's Day, presented them to older people at the church. 13th March 1988.12 of 19Sarah Tariq (Birkby Junior School), Kirsty Gentry (Cowersley Junior School) and Jonathan Heap (Netherthong Junior School) during the Kirklees Primary School Music festival at Huddersfield Town Hall. 22nd March 1988.13 of 19Youngsters from Denby Dale First School got a special glimpse of life down a coal mine today. With students from Bretton Hall College the children, including Andrew Harpin pictured right, visited the disused Caphouse Colliery, which opens as a museum in June. The 80-strong party gave the staff a trial run at dealing with crowds in the underground section of the museum. 3rd March 1988.14 of 19Big-hearted pupils at Scissett Middle School have raised more than ¿300 to help sick children at London¿ Great Ormond Street Hospital. The pupils, who earned the cash by carol singing and sponsored events, include Alison Battye, who is seen holding the cheque, Lucy and Clare Mitchell, Alison, Andrew, Robert and Edward Pickford, Shereen and Charlotte Price, Peter Kitson, Chris Brown, Lucy Cooper. Louise Lockwood, Robin Simmons, David Swaine, Gillian Senior, Helen Reynolds, Joanne Hardcastle and Charlotte Fisher. 4th March 1988.15 of 19Pupils from Highburton CE First School were not spinning a yarn when they told their parents they had visited a woollen manufacturers. They left the classroom to see cloth being produced on a warping machine at Sidney H Shaw and Co Ltd, Highburton. The visit supplements a project the pupils are researching about cloth. Andrew Tamkin and other Highburton youngsters get an expert¿ insight into the cloth-maker¿ art from Mrs Madge Ewart. 10th March 1988.16 of 19Just some of the 1,400 youngsters taking part in the Kirklees Primary School Music festival at Huddersfield Town Hall. 23rd March 1988.17 of 19Just some of the 1,400 youngsters taking part in the Kirklees Primary School Music festival at Huddersfield Town Hall. 23rd March 1988.18 of 19The Cowersley Junior School percussionists, from left, Alison Sykes, Antonia Tweed, Kirsty Gentry, Jill Irving, Lindsay Ashcroft and Carole Pollard, during the Kirklees Primary School Music festival at Huddersfield Town Hall. 23rd March 1988.19 of 19