It was also a year which saw Fred Trueman play cricket at Sheffield United’s Bramall Lane, and saw Sheffield Wednesday start to recover from by a coach crash the team suffered on Boxing Day the previous year.
That was 1961.
The reports and pictures of those memorable events in The Star were in black and white – we would not print the paper with colour pictures for around another 30 years.
But the world around us was still as bright and colourful as it is today.
However, modern technology now allows us to transform some of those pictures into colour. We have used pictures showing people and places, including West Street, Fargate and