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The Man With the Goldeneye

Film stills photographer Keith Hamshere describes how he came to enter the world of James Bond

THE ORIGINAL GOLDEN BALLS

lan Wheeler looks back on 70 years of Tiger comic and Roy of the Rovers, and chats to the man who edited and oversaw both titles

To Play the Queen

Chris Hallam looks back on the life of one of the UK’s best known lookalikes

POOLING RESOURCES

Martin Handley looks at what life was like after the Vernons Girls

POSTCARD FROM= SUSSEX

Bob Barton indulges in pleasure piers and fairground delights, as well as fulfilling a long-held ambition to visit the home of Rudyard Kipling

Oh, Miss Jones

Chris Hallam looks back at the origins and legacy of Rising Damp, ITV's most successful sitcom

Forties Post – Plastic Fantastic – Andrew Wilson shines the spotlight on a pioneering plastic surgeon

A hero in many people's books and even a war hero to others - John was recognised in his lifetime by his contemporaries, his patients and in letters that made their way into the local newspaper, the Staffordshire Sentinel. Over time that gradually fell away, to the point where, if asked, few people would ever have heard of John Grocott - apart from his former patients, for whom the universal question appears to have been: "How do you say thank you to someone who has made my life worth living?"

POSTCARD FROM HERTFORDSHIRE

Bob Barton makes plenty of connections to the film world as he returns to the county of his birth but still finds time for a vintage bus ride

Still Walking the Streets of London

Peter Robertson chats to Ralph McTell 50 years after his classic single became a hit

The Tears of a Clown

Chris Hallam remembers Bob Grant, a troubled star of On the Buses

David Wilkie

Peter Robertson pays tribute to one of Britain's most successful athletes

A Century of Smiles, Ceremonies and Celebrations

Claire Saul visits a new exhibition at Buckingham Palace's King's Gallery that reveals life on both sides of the lens of royal photography

A HARD DAY NIGHT

Greg Morse celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Beatles' first film

Terrific Tucktonia

Susan Brewer remembers the UK mainland's first theme park

A Chip Off the Old Block

Colin Allan looks back on the tennis career of Stanley Matthews Jr

The Bucolic Frolic

Martin Claytor celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Knebworth Festival

TREASURES In the ATTIC

Brian Howes unearths some nostalgic collectables that might be discarded as worthless junk but actually have a value to today's collectors. Can you estimate what each object might be worth and pick out which one is the big-money item?

Hammer Humour

Robert Ross celebrates the horror great's comedy films

"A Personal Stab of Shock and Horror"

Chris Hallam looks back on the British reaction to President Kennedy's assassination

A BUILDING BONANZA

Claire Saul samples some of the entries in a new publication from the National Trust

ON TARGET

Russell Cook browses through 50 years of a publishing phenomenon

The Rise and Fall of Poole Pottery

Steve Annandale charts the history of what was, by the 1990s, Dorset's most significant tourist attraction

DOCTOR HO-HO!

Robert Ross takes a swift spin through some of the comedy stars who have stumbled into the Tardis

The Three Ronnies

Martin Handley celebrates the talents of a trio of composers

A RARE OLD SCRAMBLE

Colin Allan has fond memories of tuning in to Grandstand to watch scrambling on winter afternoons in the sport's golden age of the 1960s

THE ULTIMATE RESPONSE

Roger Harvey nominates a sculpture in his native Newcastle as the most poignant and powerful memorial to duty and heroism

POSTCARD FROM CHESHIRE

Bob Barton finds out about subsidence, timber-framed buildings, boat lifts, waterways and Lewis Carroll, taking it all with a pinch of salt

OVER HERE

Michael Foley looks back at how the people of East Anglia reacted to the American \"invasion\" during World War Two that saw the building of dozens of airfields

A Toast to the Past

Gregory Kerry on the memories provoked by food and drink

Who's Better...?

Simon Stabler speaks to classic Doctor Who companion Janet Fielding