Checking out at a local supermarket, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologised and explained, ‘We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days’.

The post-war years of the 1950s community spirit in the neighbourhoods around the town were encouraged to start up social clubs.

Over the last 40 years, I have delivered countless slide shows, lectures and now PowerPoint presentations the length and breadth of the county. Over that time, I have seen the membership of an increasing number of the organisations on a slow decline, to a point where many of them are having to disband.

Many of these children will be well into their 30s now and in some cases may have young children of their own. I am sure they will be very enthusiastic for their them to take part in a fancy dress competition. Just as their mothers would have been when they were entered in this one in at the Hipperholme and Lightcliffe May Fair, held at the Old Brodleians Sports Ground and to remind those who went to that event it took place on Monday 2, May 1988.