Days Gone By Photos - Life is Local

A huge stainless steel slide was installed on the southern terrace of Cliveden in 2013

A new carpet at the library in 1983 meant staff having to remove 35,000 books from its shelves. 129819-1

A triple christening was held at Waltham St Lawrence church in 1988 for three cousins.

A yard of ale drinking contest at the North Star pub in 1974. 22604-20A

Able seaman Simon Horsley is welcomed back from the Falklands in 1982 by his wife Elaine and mum Rachel. 36334-34

Advertiser children's character Norbert's the Newshound made his debut in 1998.

Cleaning ladies Daisy Tilbury 78, right and her sister Mary Hine, 80, saw of burglar at Maidenhead Conservative Club in 2000.

Council's red line to Windsor in May 2003. it was dug up in November the same year. 81595-3

Dave Roberts, landlord of the Bridge House in Paley Street, sat in a bath of beans for 24 hours in 1989 in aid of Comic Relief.

De Wet Vanzyl, three, grew a giant sunflower at Claires Court Nursery in 2006

Ed Geary opened Mama Mia's town's first pizza parlour in 1970. NS15209

Eighteen-year-old Debbie Chew in 1983 was the first woman in Berkshire to be accepted for training as a firefighter. 130073-1

Ernest Tyrell, manager of Sainsbury's new store which opened in 1980. It was the chain's biggest store in Berkshire. 32397-7a

Female brickieJan Ruddy featured in the Advertiser in 1982. 35944-15a

Frank Bough tries out Maidenhead's first cash point in 1969 with bank managers Tom Sutton (left) and Mr HD Jones. 13334

Guy Wootton of Wootton boat builders in Cookham surveys the frozen River Thames in 1997. 63129-10

His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said threw a banquet for 250 Wargrave villagers

Holyport man Edward Jackson, who invented the foglight, explains his idea in 1970. 14035-A

Identical twins Liam and Aaron Lynch, six, both broke their collar bones in separate incidents in 1994. 57600-29

Judy the Chimp helped launch the opening of the VG Supermarket in Wootton Way in 1968. 12333

Kamwar Harjinder Singh became the town's first Sikh postman in 1964. 8526

Lulu the Jack Russell is cuddled by owner Gina Kaiser in 2013

Magician Don Ricardo, also known as Don the Magic Bunny Man.

Maidenhead firefighter John 'Windy' Miller found fame on children's TV 81182-2 2003

Margaret Bowdery, lifelong footpath champion and rambler pictured in 1970.15537

Nurses at St Luke's Hospital model their new uniforms in 1974. 23033-2

OAPs in Maidenhead collect free tins of beef provided by the EU in 1998.

People of all ages and from all walks of life helped create a unique photographic record of Maidenhead

Reporter Yasmine Kartal really getting into a story about the introduction of wheelie bins in 1986. 44193-6

Robin Borwick from Ruffs Orchard Stud gets a goodbye kiss from one of his donkeys before it was shipped of to Canada in 1967. 11276

Shop assistant Francis Bates, 16, tries out a giant tennis racquet from the display window of The Sportsman

Shop workers cool off in the High Street during the long hot summer of 1976. 25550-4a

Sooty popped into town to ask and Mayor Kathy

Stephen Calcutt (6ft 7ins) and Mathew Angel were among Redroofs Theatre School pupils appearing on TV in 1973. 20621

Stuart Lilley at Boyn Hill Road house where the Spice Girls lived for several months as their record company groomed them for stardom.

The 5th Maidenhead accepted its first three girls -Stephanie Carlton, Joanna Carlton and Gemma King, in 1994. 57414

The mayor and other dignitaries receive a preview of the new Tesco store before it opens in 1974. 23081-15a

The story of modest hero Nicholas Winton, the 'British Schindler' who rescued more than 650

The top of a bus was torn off when it hit a railway bridge in Cookham in 2008. 97959-5

Timothy Garside, Michael Williamson and David Keen have fun in Cannon Lane after heavy snow in 1962. 7254B

Triplets Claudia, Susanna and Georgina Brown, four, and Michael, Sarah and Steven Brosnahan,

Two-year-old Faye Pearce with a giant snowman built in 1979. 29810

Wooburn Green inventor Tommy Hancocks demonstrates his prototype motorised rollerskates in 1970. 15288

Maidenheads First Bottle Bank 1980

WAMDSAD fundraisers John Jenkins, Nelson Bailey and Stuart Anderson pass through Maidenhead