REMEMBER WHEN

Remember When: Real high-flyers

Alderman AJ Bown, who took to the skies in the line of his civic duties

7:20pm Friday 3rd May 2013

THERE was a time when Swindon mayors piloted jet aircraft and rode gliders into storm clouds – and it didn’t even merit a front page news story.

Remember When: We will rock you – again

Elton John performing at the County Ground

7:20pm Friday 26th April 2013

THE County Ground will host six weekends of music this summer.

Teenager who was a North Sea high-flier

David Spalding with a model of a Fairey Swordfish – he flew the real thing in the Second World War.

4:08pm Wednesday 24th April 2013

A RECENT Remember When about a crucial World War Two air strike brought a flood of memories for an 88-year-old Wroughton man.

When the sun set on the Empire Theatre

Roger Trayhurn and Mark Child with their new book, All For The Empire

7:20pm Thursday 18th April 2013

“IT was winter, and as we were kids we played snowballs.”

Remember the annual work's outing?

Former colleague, John Dashfield and Roger Hayes now

5:03pm Tuesday 16th April 2013

DO you or perhaps your dad or granddad remember going on a work's outing?

Firm boasts impressive collection of mobiles

hugely impressive Robert Checker, of Prestige Communications, with a vintage satellite phone,

4:08pm Friday 12th April 2013

A SWINDON business has a vintage mobile phone collection to rival any seen in 40th anniversary news reports.

Pilot’s first-hand account of raid on Nazi battleship

5:49pm Thursday 4th April 2013

PRECISELY 69 years ago this coming Wednesday, a daring Allied air strike crippled one of Hitler’s greatest battleships as it hid among the fjords of occupied Norway.

REMEMBER WHEN: How the times have changed

Regent Circus showing the former Corporation Electricity Showrooms and Regent cinema

3:00pm Saturday 23rd March 2013

WELCOME to the central Swindon of today and of years, decades and centuries gone by.

REMEMBER WHEN: Mum makes a royal discovery

WHAT A FIND Michael Richardson and his mother Kathleen with an old picture of a Victorian actor who appeared in Swindon

5:15pm Friday 22nd March 2013

MEMORABILIA of three monarchs emerged from a wardrobe during a spring clean.

REMEMBER WHEN: What’s in a name?

What’s in a name?

4:17pm Friday 22nd March 2013

IN this week’s Remember When we’re back at the start of what many proud Swindonians thought of as a dark age.

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