Friday, 16th May 2008

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Picture captures final days of hotel

Shrewsbury Column Hotel, in Shrewsbury,  August 18, 1967.

This picture showing the Shrewsbury Column Hotel, in Shrewsbury, was taken on August 18, 1967.

Murky day for opening of bridge

The Jackfield and Coalport war memorial footbridge was opened on September 2, 1922.

It was a pretty murky day when the Jackfield and Coalport war memorial footbridge was opened on September 2, 1922.

Trophy for most popular boy

May 28, 1965 - the 2nd Oakengates Company Boys’ Brigade.

Here’s a photo from 1965 - the latest in our ‘Looking Back’ series of nostalgic pictures.

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Separate schools for village’s pupils

These are, according to the postcard caption, National Schools, Clun.

Postcard dates back to World War I

We don’t visit Leominster very often in Looking Back, so let’s do some catching up today. This is Leominster Priory Church as seen in a postcard franked on April 12, 1916.

Huts found use as village halls

Here we have the village hall at Church Stoke. The village name incidentally is written as two words on this postcard, but you often see it written as Churchstoke too.

Countryside scene captured

This is the essence of the countryside, isn’t it? This postcard is labelled simply “Knowbury road” and we are looking up the lane towards Knowbury Church, which is near Ludlow.

New homes rising from rubble

It’s April 1, so naturally we shall play a dirty trick on you in this spot. And that dirty trick is to publish a photo of inferior quality . . .

Are group enjoying seaside break?

Had the weather over Easter been better, a lot more folk would have taken the chance of an Easter break away - perhaps a day at the sea.  

Press gang to party on

A social tradition harking back to a golden age of journalism, the Press Ball, is set to be revived. Toby Neal
takes a nostalgic look back to an ever-popular event.