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Film memory

in the 1950s cinemas offered one of the most popular forms of entertainment for a night out.

People and places ...

As Telegraph Hill Park faces a revamp, News Shopper reader MAHALA MEHMET traces the lives of people who lived near the historic landmark ...

Bleak expectations ...

A century-and-a-half ago prison ships, or hulks, were moored on the Thames. CLARE CRAWFORD reports ...

Best days of life

Eighteen mature Wyborne pupils recently returned to school for the first time in 44 years.

Longer summer days

While we are still having sunny days it seems hard to believe winter is on its way — yet this Sunday we will put our clocks back. BEVERLEY SAUNDERS looks at the man responsible ...

Silver screen memory

There are no cinemas in Orpington now but Beverley Saunders talks to a man who recalls when there were ...

Good service in life and death

For many decades, the Co-op was a way of life and it looked after you in life and in death. BEVERLEY SAUNDERS looks at the Co-op Funeral Society … The Rochdale Pioneers, a group of 28 men from Rochdale, are accredited with starting the first retail Co-operative Society, in 1844.