Local Bygones

A school fete at Woodside, Oswestry, in 1980.

Bygones: A trip into the past from our archives

Children on one of the rides at Its a Knockout at Cae Glas Park, Oswestry, in 1980.

It's a knock-out blast from the past for our Bygones

This photograph dates back to the 1950s. These proud railwaymen were all at the Oswestry sheds.

Days on the railway and school trips remembered in Oswestry

Bygones: Take a stroll down Memory Lane

PC Sam Smith meets a group of cadets.

Bygones: Cadet visits and recipe books in 1982

Irene Jones, Joyce Barrow and Jenny Owen pick up their awards.

Bygones: Another look into the past with our archives

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Bygones: Taking a stroll into the past with our archives

A group skating.

Bygones: Plenty of faces to remember in our trip to the past

West Felton infants.

Bygones: We head back to the past for your nostalgic needs

Fitzalan under 13s.

Bygones: Taking another trip down Memory Lane

Winter Wonderland event organised by Chirk Swimming Club.

Bygones: A nostalgic look back at yesteryear

Bygones: More memories for you all including a wedding!

Girl Guides with Miss Pauline Thomas.

Bygones: Days gone by for Oswestry and beyond

An advert for Castle Security.

Bygones: We've got a dog and a goat – that's memory lane for you!

Fearsome performances on stage.

Bygones: The days before social distancing as we go down Memory Lane

Quinta Bible Class.

Bygones: More from our nostalgia pages...

Morda Football Club.

Bygones: A sporting trip into the past and more

A wedding photo from 1982.

Bygones: And another trip Memory Lane for Tizer readers

A Hallowe’en party in 1982.

Bygones: Taking a trip further back in time...

A fun day at the leisure centre.

Bygones: Plenty of memories for this week

Capt Stewart’s fun day.

Bygones: Take a trip down memory lane...

A Teddy Bear’s picnic in Gobowen.

Bygones: Party on down into to the past

Do you remember this guy?

Bygones: Dial a ride down Memory Lane with our nostalgia trip

A Llansantffraid school trip.

The Oswestry Advertizer Bygones Page

The landlords of the Royal Oak in Treflach.

The Oswestry Advertizer Bygones Page

Reg Jones and Adrian Jones watching Charley Rogers bowl.

Bygones: Take a trip down bowling memory lane

Jack Hughes, Owen Roberts, Rees Roberts and Oswell Roberts.

Bygones: Take a trip down bowling memory lane

Davids Towers and Preston get ready to run.

Oswestry Advertizer Bygones: Take a trip down Memory Lane...

The WRVS anniversary dinner party.

Bygones: Take a trip down memory lane with our pictures

Former mayor Betty Gull at Home Street

Bygones: Take a trip down memory lane with our pictures

There were smiles all round with this presentation

Smiles all round in this week's Tizer Bygones

Nurses at Chirk Hospital advertise the annual fun day

The Oswestry Advertizer Bygones: Take a look down Memory Lane...

The Oswestry Advertizer Bygones

This featured Bygones picture has caught a reader's memory

Bygones picture jogs Wendy's memories for Porth-y-Waen darts team

Recognise any of these characters?

BYGONES: Looking back through the years

Rosemary Harper, Steve Wright and Graham Cox from North Shropshire College

Bygones: A blast from the past

A table tennis marathon in Llanymynech

Bygones for October 9

A Stroke Club Fayre at the Memorial Hall in 1995

Bygones: A mish-mash look back at 1995

The Orthopaedic Hospital Fete in 1993

Bygones: A look back at a summer fete

A paper carrier bag for R. & R. Hughes of Oswestry, who operated from Numbers 13 and 15, The Cross, with an image of the second shop front design proudly on display.

Hidden Oswestry: How one man's Godfather's duties cost him his life...

Whittington bell ringers in 1985

The Advertizer Bygones page: Whittington bell ringers

John Kynaston, Ruyton Xl Towns working at his smallholding on his 90th birthday (BCA 13 Feb 1974)

Ruyton’s ‘Old Safety’ fire engine

Churhc Street, 1948

Origins of the town linked to border castles

St David's Church, Oswestry, pictured in the 70s or 80s

Chapel faithful heard the gospel in Welsh

Chirk Railway Station, 1962

Bygones - Stations and lines of Shropshire's past

St Marys Church, Ellesmere

Streets are the key to village history

Wilfred Owen cutout

Region has its heroes and TV celebs

Cross Keys public house

Oswestry was never short of pubs

Whittington Castle

Rector enjoyed new year feast for old men

Looking over Plat Bridge into Ruyton

Castles reminder of battles in the borders

St Mary's Church seen through the lych gate

Corn mill by side of canal powered by steam

The old tithe barn at Felton Manor

Standing stones of south Oswestry were lost

An aerial view of Chirk Castle

Train fans watched a famous steam flyer

A group of sales assistants and customers outside shops in Gobowen village square

1948 was a dark year for the hospital