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IN PICTURES: 11 images of High Peak from 1966

While England’s World Cup heroics featured little in the pages of the Buxton Advertiser & Herald in 1966, there was no shortage of local news and sports stories to make the headlines.

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July 1966, a World Cup float in Buxton Carnival

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July 1966, a World Cup-themed collector in Buxton's Carnival

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March 1966, a rather basic Dalek visiting Fairfield School.

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March 1966, Spring Gardens, Buxton

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October 1966, Ken Dodd is presented with a giant jam butty at the opening of "Buxton on Show", a four-day spectacular designed to boost the town's trade.

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Oct 1966, Ken Dodd with dignitaries at the opening of "Buxton on Show".

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April 1966, Buxton FC fans at the Baseball Ground for the Derbyshire Senior Cup final. They lost to Heanor.

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July 1966, The Yardbirds relaxing before a concert at the Pavilion Gardens, Buxton.

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September 1966, sorting mail at Buxton's new postal sorting office.

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July 1966, Tideswell Carnival and a float based on the old woman who lived in a shoe.

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Sept 1966, Peter Matthews, of Liverpool, wins the Tour of the Peak. Appalling weather and the difficult course meant that only one rider in four actually finished.

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