All Our Yesterdays: Town topics in Downham Market, Fakenham, Hunstanton, King’s Lynn and Swaffham
All Our Yesterdays: Town topics
October 2012: Swaffham’s new-look Anglia Co-operative food store was given the civic seal of approval when Swaffham Mayor Terry Jennison, third left, cut the ceremonial ribbon. Helping with the launch was Lynn News competition winner Iris Lee and First Swaffham Scout Group representatives who had benefited from fundraising carried out by the store.
October 2012: Children watch in amazement as College of West Anglia principal David Pomfret tries out a slide when he officially opens the new equipment at the college’s Applewood Children’s Nursery on the Tennyson Avenue campus in Lynn.
October 2012: There was a world of ghostly goings-on in Lynn town centre as a trick-or-treat event was held for youngsters in the Vancouver Quarter. Wilkinson’s staff Emily-Jane Parker-Chambers, Tracy Howard and Sharon Mitchell are pictured with trick-or-treaters Jasmine Thurlow and Amelia and Gracie Gooding.
October 2002: Side by side – these two colourful, and accurately scaled-down, Romany caravans were among the amazing floral tributes to Ruth Taylor at Rouses Lane Cemetery in Downham. The traditional traveller’s funeral for 76-year-old Mrs Taylor, of Barton’s Drove, Downham, was one of the largest seen in the town for years.
October 2002: Fakenham High School pupils hand over a cheque for £2,400 towards the proposed new sports and leisure centre at Trap Lane. They raised the cash in a sponsored summer run, completing laps around the estimated perimeter of the future site.
October 2006: Hundreds of Smithdon School pupils at Hunstanton did their bit to help support children with genetic disorders by dressing down for the annual Jeans for Genes event. In the foreground, from left, are Kim Goodliffe, Alastair Hall and Katie Rudd; behind are Year Seven poster competition winners and other participating sixth-formers.
October 2006: These drama students from Lynn Arts Centre were part of a major open-air ceremony to officially launch the £1.3million renovation of Lynn’s leaning tower. Fifteen months had been spent renovating the medieval Greyfriars Tower in Tower Gardens.
October 2006: A sell-out Downham Chamber of Trade president’s ball, held at the town hall, raised £400 for charity – money which would go to the East Anglian Air Ambulance and the children’s ward at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. This picture shows civic dignitaries and Chamber of Trade officials.
October 2006: Youngsters, storytellers, parents and staff at the “We Love Languages Day” held at Hunstanton Library.
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