As we approached the new Millennium, the Express & Star took a look back at the past 100 years. Years of war and peace, optimism and despair, achievement and pure wonder. This is their story. Those were the days.

Those Were The Days was researched and written by Peter Rhodes, Frances Cartwright, Marion Brennan, John Corser, Steve Castle and Bob Procter. Web design by Aidan Goldstraw and David Williams.