Do you recognise any of these Sheffield residents from 1970?Do you recognise any of these Sheffield residents from 1970?
Do you recognise any of these Sheffield residents from 1970?

10 pictures to take you right back to Sheffield in 1970

It was the year that Diana Ross and the Supremes performed their farewell concert, Zimbabwe severed ties with the UK and declared itself a republic, Richard Nixon banned cigarette advertising in America, and Apollo 13 safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean.

Musically, Mungo Jerry, Elvis Presley and Smokey Robinson all topped the charts, and film fans flocked to cinemas to watch The Railway Children, Richard Harris in A Man Called Horse, Clint Eastwood in Kelly’s Heroes and sobbed over Ryan O’Neal and Ally Macgraw’s doomed romance in Love Story. But do you recognise any of these faces taken in Sheffield in 1970?

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