#OnThisDay 24 years ago, four airships are floating across the Berkshire skies advertising the newly-renamed "Lotto" National Lottery draws.

I'm guessing there were 4 airships due to the promotion of 4 draws for £1 that week.

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#OnThisDay 40 years ago, 29 April 1986, and Mary is in the garden.

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#OnThisDay 79 years ago, 27 April 1947 and we have this photo labelled "Group of our gang". Most of the faces I recognise, including Jack and Mary, and Mary's brother and sister Charles and Muriel. It was a Sunday, so perhaps it was a Sunday afternoon family walk.

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#OnThisDay 25 years ago - 26 April 2001 - Jack, Mary, and Mary's brother-in-law Cyril, pose for a photo in front of the replica of GWR North Star at Swindon's railway museum.

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#OnThisDay 75 years ago, Sunday 22nd April 1951, Jack and Mary pose for photos along with Mary's mother, Agnes. They're in their Sunday best, so they're likely to have been going to, or returning from, church.

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These photographs were all in an envelope dated 30 October 1951, however I know that can't be correct as they show the Festival of Britain, which ran between 4 May - 30 September that year. Looking at the trees and what people are wearing, I'd say it probably is September.

The photos show a family trip to visit the Festival on London's South Bank - albeit one that nearly didn't happen after their car broke down on the way. Thankfully, having a mechanic at the wheel and another called for help, the car was fixed at the roadside and they went on their way. The family is my grandparents - Bob and Phyllis, with sons Colin (my dad), and David.

Dad, the older boy in the first photo, remembers this day, saying the car problem was "the gearbox or prop shaft, or something like that".

At the Festival, some of the things they saw included an Indian Government Railways steam locomotive, and Skylon, the iconic metal structure that gave the illusion of floating above the riverbank.

Today, the 1977 Silver Jubilee guidepost on the path near the 'Jubiloos' marks the approximate location of where Skylon stood.

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#OnThisDay 60 years ago, 23 October 1965, Jack and Mary's niece (Jack's sister Christine's daughter), Angela Hearn, married Derek Foale. The register office marriage was followed by the family gathering for a wedding breakfast hosted at Jack and Mary's house - these photos were taken in their garden.

The first photo is Angela and Derek, just married. Photo 2 are Angela's mother, Christine, and step-father Maurice. Photo 3 is Jack and Mary. Photo 4 is my nan, Phyllis Hearn with sons David and Colin (my dad), cousins of Angela.

These photos appear in the timeline in what's turned out to be a sombre week of the year: David died a year ago last Monday (20th), Jack died 4 years ago today just weeks from his 101st birthday, and my mum passed 6 years tomorrow.

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One last visit to the beach before the journey home, taken #OnThisDay 77 years ago, 2 October 1948.

Even though I already knew from the caption these photos were taken on Hayling Island, I immediately recognised where Jack and Mary are sitting on the beach as Eastoke from having recently visited there. They're sitting at Eastoke Corner, roughly where the car park, playground and toilets are today, near the Hayling Light Railway station.

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#OnThisDay, 1 October 1948, and it's nearly the end of the honeymoon. Jack heads to a local garage to give the car a check over and pump up the tyres ready for the journey home.

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On their way back from their trip to Scotland, Jack and Mary stop off at junction 37 of the M6 where the Lambrigg Wind Farm had just opened. Photos taken #OnThisDay 25 years ago, 30 September 2000.

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