From the Radcliffe Times of April 1, 1955: Mr Fred Crook was named as the next Mayor of Radcliffe at a meeting of the Radcliffe Town Council.

Coun Crook, a local dye works manager, succeeded Coun F. Holt and was installed in office in May. His wife, Emily Crook, took the role of mayoress.

Coun Leonard Clarkson, of Victoria Street, Radcliffe, died after returning from a social event. The 54-year-old who had been a Labour member of Radcliffe Town Council for five years, passed away at home.

Cinema fans were laughing along with Abbott and Costello, who were getting up to all sorts of mischief and mayhem while they were Lost in Alaska, at the Picturedrome, while the ladies were swooning over Tony Curtis in So This is Paris, at the Odeon.

Magistrates in Radcliffe ordered Picturedrome manager Mr William Hague to show a category U film on Good Friday. Magistrates chairman, Mr C. Mills, decided that the category A film, Iron Man, was not suitable for Good Friday viewing. Mr Hague promised to change the programme to bring it in line with the wishes of the court. It makes you wonder just why Iron Man was deemed so unsuitable, doesn't it?

Following an announcement of proposed wage variations, around 160 disabled employees from Remploy, Eton Hill Road, Radcliffe, staged a one-day sit down strike. After interviews with the management and trade union officials, staff returned to work the following day.