More images to bring back memories in the Vale and the North Cotswolds this week, including a trio of pictures which echo the ends for medical care in Evesham at Briar Close more than 30 years ago.
There are also some sporting line-ups where some faces might be recognised, although it's it's a long shot that anyone will remember either of the firemen pictured with the "gleaming" new Pershore appliance, given that the picture was taken in 1949!
We hope you enjoy this latest dip into the archives – if you have any nostalgic pictures you'd like to share, please send them to our community content editor at barry.kinghorn@newsquest.co.uk
Look out for some more pictures next week.
August 2002 and youngsters had a splashing time with their weekly wet and wild day at Moreton Playspace. James Evans and Liam Peach take their turn on the water pistols
Bretforton’s first team pictured in August 2003, front row, from left, Alex Evans, Andrew Stanley, Jim Jones, Andrew Ogg and Matt Stanley. Back, Anthony Clarke, Robert Smith, Michael Evans, Dale Boulton, Max Green, Peter Cross and Keith Grove
It’s October 1986 and sister Jean Lowe is in charge of the busy casualty unit at Briar Close hospital as the row hotted up over plans to close and transfer it as a GP-managed unit only to Avonside...
...barely 15 months later and two of the last patients to leave Briar Close, Bill Thompson and John Rainey, are given an escort by Sister Patricia Driscoll in February 1988
And it’s goodbye Briar Close as the switch to Avonside is completed. Nurse Margaret Newbury on the last bed to leave Izod ward
Blockley’s hockey players are preparing for a new season in the Severn League in August 2002
Evesham and District Skittles League prize winners clutching their trophies in August 2006, from left: Nigel Guscott, Kevin Newbury, Richard Ford, Brian Jinks (league president), Graeme Hartwell (league chairman), Rachel Walker, Bill Quinn and Dan Ford
April 1978 and Cllr Jack Beckley, Wychavon chairman tries his hand at being Spiderman at the topping out ceremony at the Princes Theatre at Prince Henry High School
September 2005 and an impromptu conga formed in Pershore during the annual jazz festival
This one goes back a bit – all the way to January 1949 and a “gleaming up-to-date” fire engine for Pershore
April 1980 and Jean Hadley is crowned Pershore’s Carnival Queen with attendants Naomi Bloodworth, left, and Debbie Tipper
May 1998 and there was animal magic in the form of Matthew Webb, David Hurst and Alistair McKenzie on board the Pinvin First School float at Pershore Carnival
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