Take a trip back in time in Bo'ness, Linlithgow and South Queensferry.
THIS week's vintage photograph shows Bo'ness fundraising group The Pageants, who used to walk up and over the Flints in aid of the Edinburgh Sick Children's Hospital.
Pictured in the centre row, second from the left, is the late Joe Murray, who was a resident of Derry Close.
His son Alex thinks the photo was taken in the 1930s, possibly earlier, in Derry Close, and that the other men pictured were neighbours of Joe's.
Alex knew the judge in the centre as Willie Greenhogg.
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25 years ago
The sun shone down when Mrs Annette Carrie crowned Elspeth Ralston as the Ferry Fair Queen.
Hopes to create a community council in Queensferry for the first time ever received a boost when five residents put their names forward for election.
Bo'ness received a highly commended prize in the latest Beautiful Scotland in Bloom competition.
A High Street shop in Linlithgow was set up to raise funds for aid for Africa this week. The In-V-Aid premises, was launched by Stuart Adamson, of Scots band Big Country. Their aim is to buy mobile drug dispensaries.
Linlithgow Palace is to be floodlit when a Son et Lumiere show is staged during the forthcoming Linlithgow Festival Link.
Linlithgow Academy's new 1 million extension opened this week. The new extension houses the school's geography, history, computing room and a library.
Honours were shared in the first derby of the season. Goalscorers at Newtown Park were Carroll and Hamilton for the BUs while Masterton and Gibson hit the net for the Rose.
50 years ago
A fund for the dependents of two Bo'ness men who lost their lives while on a boating incident on the Forth is to be made. A house-to-house collection will carried out across Bo'ness.
Isobel Markie and Jean Bernard brought glory back to Kinneil Bowling Club when they won the Scottish District No3 final in the National Coal Board Ladies Pairs Championship at Wishaw.
Temperatures reached 70 degrees as Margaret Sweetman was crowned Ferry Fair Queen in Queensferry. Her mother Margaret Anderson, a past queen of 1937, crowned the new queen.
A plea was made this week for more student nurses to work at Bangour Hospital. With just 192 full-time nurses and 87 part-time caring for more than 1100 patients, it was said the hospital; was working at almost 50 per cent below strength on its nursing staff.
The football season got underway with Bo'ness suffering a 3-2 defeat to Camelon. The Rose play their first match next week against the BUs.
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Friday 18 May 2012
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