REMEMBER When often journeys several decades into the past, but this week our trip is a little shorter.

In June of 1997, the Swindon Advertiser produced a supplement called Faces of Swindon. It was done in conjunction with Boots and public cultural organisation Media Arts.

Boots’ involvement reflected its major share of the photoprocessing market, which was still huge.

Film was king. Digital cameras were available to intrepid early adopters, but they tended to cost as much as a decent second hand car and image quality was inferior. For many of us these days, the key to good photography is often to take dozens of shots and hope a few are worth keeping. In the days of film this would have been ruinously expensive, so we ran a page of tips by chief photographer Dave Evans. His suggestions included gathering groups as tightly as possible, pressing the shutter cleanly to avoid blurring, and using flash in bright sunlight to cut out harsh shadows.

For Faces of Swindon we asked readers to submit photographs of everyday life. As well as being printed in a supplement, the images were displayed in the Brunel Centre in an exhibition attended by local VIPs including Julia Drown, the recently-elected MP for South Swindon.

We hope the pictures here jog some memories of happy times. Perhaps you’re one of the teenagers from Lawn Youth Centre who were photographed at the County Ground athletic track one spring day, or the little girl in the Tweetie Pie teeshirt who was snapped as she sat on a wooden rocking chair.

By our reckoning you’d both be in your late teens by now, and either at university or taking your first steps on the career ladder.

Or maybe you’re one of the Ferndale Junior School pupils photographed as they queued for lunch.

We’d be delighted to hear from anybody who appeared in these shots or others in the supplement or the exhibition. bhudson@swindonadvertiser.co.uk