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ANSWERS to readers' questions sometimes elude me but fortunately there is usually someone out there who can help out.
Such was the case when Paul Snelson, now 54, asked me if I could tell him when the original Grange Infants School opened.
A LITTLE piece of history could be brought back to Flintshire if campaigners have their way.
History and shipping enthusiasts want a s sponsor to pave the way for the RH Carr, one of the last steam ships to be built in Flintshire, to return to the county from Guyana, South America.
A COMMANDO'S daughter from Widnes has identified a war ravaged village pictured in photographs found in an old tin as a Norwegian port raided by her father and other British forces in 1941.
Ann Jones, of Kilsby Drive, now hopes the photographs' owners, Alan and Elaine Leather, of Ditton, can help to unravel the riddle surrounding her father's death and burial.
Lance Sergeant Harold Povey was among the first commandos who fought house to house in a raid on Vaagso on December 27, 1941.
Operation Archery was the first joint amphibious raid carried out by the Navy, RAF and Army, during which Lance Sgt Povey died.
STEVE Keogh, 52, a Runcornian 'born and bred', kindly took the trouble to email 19 copies of superb black-and-white photographs which captured the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
An American sailor 'shot' the pictures with a Box Brownie and, amazingly, the photos were found to be still in top condition when they were recently discovered in a foot locker.
My thanks to Steve, whom I'm delighted to say, enjoys reading this column.
AVIATION history began at Broughton 70 years ago with workmen using horse-drawn carts to level the land - no easy task as it was found to be sloping by some seven feet, writes Rob Davies.
It must have been hard to imagine back in 1939 that this place, would one day be the site of a world leader in the manufacture of some of the finest aircraft in the world.
A LANDMARK building in Mostyn is to be put up for sale in the new year.
The Clocktower, formally known as the Robert Davies Memorial Hall, is expected to be put on the market early next year.
A GROUP of Runcorn writers this week launched a new book all about the town's recent social history.
Brindley-based Scribes and Scribblers produced Personal Memories of Lost Landmarks and Past Times in Runcorn, which is available now at the Curiosity Book Shop.
MARKET trader Walter Brown, who has died at the age of 102, was an unerring, intuitive and instinctive judge of what the customer wanted.
And he was as almost as well known in Widnes and Frodsham, not to mention Ellesmere Port, as he was in his home town of Runcorn.
On leaving school, he began his working life at the old Highfield Tannery and subsequently moved on to ICI Rocksavage.
In the meantime, he had opened a little shop in Lowlands Road or thereabouts (it may have been just round the corner in one of the side streets) and soon afterwards opened a crockery store in Bridge Street.
He always had his supportive wife, Annice, by his side, but soon concluded that he could not do justice to both his jobs.
ONE or two older readers might remember of recognise someone they know in this old class photo.
The picture was submitted by Vivian Jones on behalf of her aunt Ethel Bostock nee Downes, who features in the photo.
A FORMER director at Sandbach's historic ERF truck company has written a book on the world-famous firm.
Dai Davies, 71, is launching his book, ERF - The Inside Story, at Crewe Library from 3-7pm on Monday, December 21.
Dai, who now lives near Johannesburg, joined the now defunct company as an apprentice in 1954 and went on to become managing director of its South African, Australian and New Zealand operations before retiring after 43 years' service.
He last visited Sandbach last year and was overwhelmed by the level of interest in the book.
He said: "I'd be thrilled to meet anyone at the Crewe event who used to work for the company or anyone who is just interested in learning more about the company's rich heritage."
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