Picture 1 MODEL locomotives were on display at Wantage Museum in 1978 to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington railway, and the opening of the National Railway Museum at York. Among the visitors were three-year-old Andrew Francis and his father.
Picture 2 EAN Royan, left, owner of the Blue Boar Hotel, and Graham Parker, chairman of Wantage Round Table, set off on a mercy mission to help earthquake victims in Italy in 1980. They towed a caravan packed with supplies.
Picture 3 THERE was no shortage of tankards at the Post Office Vaults in Market Place. Hanging from the pub’s ceiling in 1981 were 112 pewter, wood, glass and pottery mugs from all over the world, collected by landlord Bruce Powell.
Memory Lane this week
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