It was the year Sheffield welcomed the Fiesta nightclub and when the Barrier Hoppers ladies football team stood in the snow. Here are memories to transport you back 50 years ago
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13. Castle Square
Teenagers clean up Castle Square during the Council workers strike October 1970 | JPIMedia Photo: ©Sheffield Newspapers Ltd

14. Sylvester Gardens
Turners (Cutler) Sylvester Gardens Sheffield where Horrace Lee received a retiring gift from the management team | JPIMedia Photo: Submitted

15. Brightside children
Brightside children wrote letters to The Star protesting about the vandalism to the saplings they had planted back in January 1970 | JPIMedia Photo: Sheffield Newspapers Ltd

16. Barrier Hoppers
Barrier Hoppers ladies football team 1970 | JPIMedia Photo: Sheffield Newspapers Ltd

