Nostalgia
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nostalgia editor.  | Link forged with past | | 3:54pm Wed 7 May 08 | | A REMARKABLE set of photographs, taken by the village blacksmith in Bishops Cannings, near Devizes, paints a picture of what life was like at the turn of the 19th century. |
 | Your memories | | 11:19am Thu 1 May 08 | | THE face of innocence can be seen in these regular soldiers, pictured in 1914 a few months before the outbreak of the First World War. The picture was found by David Hill, 89, who lived in the Devizes area for more than 40 years before moving to Trowbridge. He found the picture, which was taken by Bulford Barracks Studio, behind a photograph of a sphinx which belonged to his father. It would be the last photograph ever taken of many of the soldiers. |
 | Ghosts of a lost village | | 6:00am Thu 1 May 08 | | IMBER, the village seven miles from Devizes taken over by the Army in 1943 and never returned to its inhabitants, still rankles in the public mind after all this time. |
 | Under fire in the Blitz | | 6:00am Thu 24 Apr 08 | | THE efforts of the brave men and women who volunteered to fight fires during the Blitz in World War II are often overlooked. |
 | Man about Town | | 2:39pm Wed 16 Apr 08 | | CLUB secretary Chris Blake retires at the end of this season after 12 years living and breathing every moment of Chippenham Town's highs and lows. |
 | Tales of Dad's Army | | 2:07pm Wed 9 Apr 08 | | A TALE of the real life Dad's Army in Langley Burrell has been put together by researcher Anthony Millard. |
 | Masked gang mystery | | 3:32pm Thu 27 Mar 08 | | THE Ferguson Gang, whose masked female crusaders donated bags of silver to the National Trust, are among the items documented in new records at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre. |
 | War heroes live again | | 3:28pm Thu 20 Mar 08 | | WITH the notable exceptions of the Thanksgiving Villages, every village in the country has a war memorial. |
 | A right royal history | | 10:01am Fri 14 Mar 08 | | NESTLED in the centre of Chippenham, Monkton Park has a little known royal history. |
 | New life in old church | | 3:28pm Thu 6 Mar 08 | | IT might seem peculiar to hear that a redundant church is a great success but that is a fair comment about St Peter and St Paul's Church in Marlborough. |
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