Family favourites

Raymond, Natalie and Sarah-Jane Burt and their customers mark 57 years of family involvement in the Pelican, Devizes

9:11am Thursday 7th July 2011

With pub licensees changing with the frequency of football managers, it is cause for celebration that the Burt family of Devizes have been running the Pelican Inn for 57 years.

Your memories ... of golden days

Susan and William (Bill) Jones on their golden wedding anniversary

9:08am Thursday 7th July 2011

This lovely picture of the golden wedding celebration of pub landlords William and Susan Jones was taken in April 1910.

Your memories ... of life in the services

National Serviceman Pete Hawke shows his athletic prowess by diving for the ball on a beach in Cyprus, one of the many photographs taken by Terry Buchanan during the 1950s

3:31pm Thursday 30th June 2011

The photograph of the three lads, published on June 2, brought back memories for former Army public relations photographer Terry Buchanan.

Old school ties

Pupils pictured in 1937. Pat Romang, aged 11, is first right, front row

3:28pm Thursday 30th June 2011

Memories came flooding back to former pupils at Neston Primary School which has celebrated its 150th anniversary.

We must not forget

Author Richard Broadhead at the exhibition

1:30pm Thursday 23rd June 2011

The repatriations of British soldiers through Lyneham and Wootton Bassett are covered extensively in the media but how much do we know about those who served in the First World War?

Your memories ... of bravery in war

More than 1,500 people attended the funeral of Archibald Edmund Hill who narrowly avoided crashing into houses when shot down over a small Norweigian island in 1941. If youhave memories to share, contact Diana Deal at ddeal@gazetteandherald

1:24pm Thursday 23rd June 2011

Readers are being asked to help a researcher who is looking into the case of pilot Archibald Edmund Hill who was shot down during the Second World War.

Carrying the torch

Det Sgt Joseph Peare won many accolades for his prowess and, inset left, the torch he carried for the 1948 relay

12:27pm Thursday 2nd June 2011

As arrangements are made for the Olympic torch to run through Wiltshire on its way to London for the opening of the games in 2012, memories return to the last English Olympic relay in 1948.

Your memories

Reading the Gazette and Herald in Cyprus in 1957

12:20pm Thursday 2nd June 2011

This photo shows Keith Flower, of Rowde, the late Pat Lydell, of Lacock, and Clive Davis, of Devizes, reading the Wiltshire Gazette and Herald while serving in Cyprus in 1957 with the Wiltshire Regiment.

Your memories ... of grammar school

Form 5B at Devizes Grammar School in 1959 or 1960. If you have memories to share, contact Diana Deal at ddeal@gazetteandherald.co.uk

2:15pm Thursday 26th May 2011

Former Devizes Grammar School pupil Richard Giles has written about the photograph he sent of form 5B in 1959 or 1960.

Now we are forty

Dancers in the High Street in 1980

2:12pm Thursday 26th May 2011

With the 40th anniversary of the Chippenham Folk Festival just around the corner, volunteers have been looking back at the early days of the festival.

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Your Say Your Gazette

I refer to the article on Chippenham RFC seeking permission from the Rugby Football Union to allow their second team to be promoted to Southern Counties (level seven of the RFU league structure) should they finish top of Dorset & Wilts 1 North (level eight), (Gazette & Herald, February 28). The most interesting aspect of the article was actually what was not said by the club’s representative or was not mentioned.  − Colin Brockhurst, Corsham

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A newsletter hit my doormat on March 2 from ‘Nick Watts and the Lib Dem team’ headlined: Freeze Wilts council tax say Lib Dems. This document goes on to tell us that: “hard-working families cannot afford unnecessary council tax hikes in these difficult times” and so “Nick Watts and the Liberal Democrats have promised not to support any attempt by Wiltshire Conservatives to hit families by increasing council tax this year”.  − Peter Kemp, Chippenham

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