Such was the case when Paul Snelson, now 54, asked me if I could tell him when the original Grange Infants School opened.

Ann Jones, of Kilsby Drive, now hopes the photographs' owners, Alan and Elaine Leather, of Ditton, can help to unravel the riddle surrounding her father's death and burial.

Lance Sergeant Harold Povey was among the first commandos who fought house to house in a raid on Vaagso on December 27, 1941.

Operation Archery was the first joint amphibious raid carried out by the Navy, RAF and Army, during which Lance Sgt Povey died.

Rob enjoyed reading the piece written by Lew Darlington, which appeared here earlier this month, and kindly sent me his own recollections of life 'under the arches'.

I'm trying to locate anyone with information about the Murphy family of Widnes. Do these names mean anything to you :-

James Gerard (Jim) Murphy, Mary Maureen Davies (formerly Murphy), Kathleen McSorley (formerly Murphy), and Winnifred Wood (also formerly Murphy). These are, respectively, my grandfather, my mother, and her sisters. The family address was Milton Avenue, Widnes.

I know that James died in 1943 and is buried in Widnes Cemetery, but have no information about what happened to the rest of the family. Can anyone please help?

I can be reached via email at tonydav65@hotmail.com

I would be grateful for any information

Thank you!

And today, the number of under- nines and teenage teams participating in all three sports provides sufficient evidence that continuity looks guaranteed for many years to come.

It is more than 50 years since I first began reporting on amateur soccer before graduating to coverage of Runcorn Football Club and the concluding years of the great Jack Search era.

STEVE Keogh, 52, a Runcornian 'born and bred', kindly took the trouble to email 19 copies of superb black-and-white photographs which captured the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

An American sailor 'shot' the pictures with a Box Brownie and, amazingly, the photos were found to be still in top condition when they were recently discovered in a foot locker.

My thanks to Steve, whom I'm delighted to say, enjoys reading this column.

Brindley-based Scribes and Scribblers produced Personal Memories of Lost Landmarks and Past Times in Runcorn, which is available now at the Curiosity Book Shop.

And he was as almost as well known in Widnes and Frodsham, not to mention Ellesmere Port, as he was in his home town of Runcorn.

On leaving school, he began his working life at the old Highfield Tannery and subsequently moved on to ICI Rocksavage.

In the meantime, he had opened a little shop in Lowlands Road or thereabouts (it may have been just round the corner in one of the side streets) and soon afterwards opened a crockery store in Bridge Street.

He always had his supportive wife, Annice, by his side, but soon concluded that he could not do justice to both his jobs.

The rows and rows of terraced houses (all the street names were in some way connected to the Duke of Bridgewater's imprint on the area) were home to several generations of Dukesfielders.

Bobby Whitley, 87, of Widnes, revealed that Freddie Lowe - the photographer behind the Second World War pictures in last week's Weekly News - was a childhood friend and that Bobby remains friends with Freddie's family today.

Bobby was conscripted as an apprentice gunner in the Navy as part of 819 Squadron, and said he was just yards from Freddie when HMS Khedive, on which Freddie was serving, moored in India during its return trip from the Pacific theatre of war in 1945.

Bobby said he would have been delighted to bump into Freddie, who was born in Green Hill Cottage, Appleton, just nine months after Bobby was born in the same house.

Such a finding will obviously be of considerable interest to many of the townspeople in and around the borough.

Museum curator Paul Meara and his staff are understandably delighted the documents have landed on their doorstep, more or less out of the blue as it were.

They were sent by Jean Finlan, of The Haystacks, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, who describes herself as "An old Widnesian in every sense of the word!"

In a letter to the museum, Jean explained that the documents had been in her possession for many years but without her looking at them.

Georgia Faulke, 10, of Moore Primary School, will take over the responsibility from present incumbent Charlotte Theis.

The keen dancer attends Footloose classes in Sandymoor, Runcorn, and says she cannot wait to take up the role.

The Lewis Carroll Society was formed in 1969 to encourage research into the life and works of the eponymous Daresbury-born author, who wrote the classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Anyone interested in joining the society can call Ken Oultram on 01606 891303.

The picture shows last year's Alice, Charlotte Theis, who will hand over to Georgia Faulke.