Archive for July, 2009

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Rochdale Sub Aqua Club

These are some of the photos that were shown at the 50th Anniversary of Rochdale Sub Aqua Club. Rochdale Sub Aqua Club : 1980’s Rochdale Sub Aqua Club : 1990’s Rochdale Sub Aqua Club : 2000’s Scapa Flow : 1987 – 1995 Scapa Flow : 2006

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Scapa Flow : 2006

Photos taken at Scapa Flow on the 2006 trip.

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Scapa Flow : 1987 – 1995

Photos taken at Scapa Flow between 1987 and 1995.

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Rochdale Sub Aqua Club : 2000’s

Photos from the 2000′s

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Rochdale Sub Aqua Club : 1990′s

Photos from the 1990′s

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Rochdale Sub Aqua Club : 1980′s

Photos from the 1980′s

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Deep Sea Diver in Rochdale

From the Rochdale Observer, 10 September, 1927.   Deep Sea Diver in Rochdale. Repairing a Gas Holder In connection with the repair of the Rochdale Corporation’s largest gas holder, the services of a professional diver have been requisitioned to examine the water tank which seals the holder. Our photograph was taken on Thursday afternoon when the diver [...]

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Soggy hockey sticks

Laura Shannon December 04, 2007 HOCKEY under water? Sounds odd, but reporter LAURA SHANNON went along to Oulder Hill School to find out more about this most unusual sport … AFTER losing my teeth almost a decade ago after being at the wrong end of a hockey stick, taking up the game again wasn’t something [...]

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Chris flips into sea rescue hero

June 12, 2001 Chris Bell spotted the stricken pup in great distress off the coast of the Maldives during a holiday with his wife, Lynne. The couple had taken an excursion trip to see the dolphins but, after a fruitless search, their boat was chugging back towards the harbour when Chris saw something out of [...]

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Looking back

Looking back at the strange and unusual May 13, 2006 THE Observer’s pages have carried some unusual stories and covered many a strange sport down the years…   SNOW badly affected sport in March 1979, but Rochdale Golf Club’s intrepid new captain Eric Bamford beat the weather by driving in the season on skis.   [...]

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