Nostalgia
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nostalgia editor.  | A child's right to roam | | 2:27pm Thu 3 Jul 08 | | Skipping in the road, playing in the fields and swimming in the river are among the memories evoked by a new exhibition in Calne this month. |
 | Scouts score a century | | 3:52pm Thu 26 Jun 08 | | THE 1st Devizes Scouts, the second oldest Scout troop in the world, is celebrating its centenary this year with 12 months of special events for its young members. |
 | Cardinal comes to call | | 4:31pm Thu 19 Jun 08 | | IMAGINE the Archbishop of Canterbury coming to Devizes to raise money for a new church in the centre of the town and you will have some idea what excitement there was in the town on June 20 1928. | | Reader comment (1) |
 | Matron rules, okay? | | 4:06pm Wed 11 Jun 08 | | FORMER Lackham students reminisced on how much life has changed over the past 50 years when they met at a reunion last month. |
 | Frieze for a fine family | | 3:17pm Thu 5 Jun 08 | | PIECES of public art in Devizes do not come along very often and this year will be ten years since a modest example was unveiled. |
 | Penguins’ half century | | 3:51pm Wed 28 May 08 | | THE swimming club in Marlborough, known as the Penguins, is 50 this year. |
 | From boom to bust | | 3:18pm Thu 22 May 08 | | A snapshot of Chippenham's Victorian manufacturing history opens on June 20. |
 | Just to say thank you | | 11:42am Tue 20 May 08 | | Memories of the Second World War were revived last week as veterans were awarded commemorative badges, more than 60 years after the Armistice. |
 | 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. |
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