As Reflections embarks on a new editorial chapter, we rewind to one of our earliest editions.
In October 1992, our front cover featured the Queen’s Park in Chesterfield, looking beautifully autumnal, with banking up to the bandstand carpeted in leaves of brown and gold.
The park may still look pretty similar today … but how our pages have changed!
This month 33 years ago, our lead feature was a profile on Ted Needham CBE who, over the course of 40 years, rose from junior chemist to chairman and chief executive of Coalite, transforming it from producer of smokeless fuel and chemicals into a multi-faceted business.
We were welcoming a new range of Malaysian-made Proton cars, which promised to be “cleaner, quieter, smoother and more frugal.”
And our fashion page forecasted “swingy” coats and tailored jackets – still with a hint of 1980s power dressing – for the cooler months ahead.
