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Club pays tribute to track superstar Janet

Janet Ruff winning the 440 yards race at White City Stadium, west London at the Women's Amateur Athletic Associations Championships, in either 1956 or 1957

11:29am Tuesday 31st August 2010

A WORLD class athlete who was a star of Basingstoke and Mid Hants Athletic Club died earlier this month.

Remember the first run?

IBM half-marathon in Basingstoke, on Sunday, June 11, 1995

11:35am Tuesday 24th August 2010

BASINGSTOKE will be putting its best foot forward when the town hosts a halfmarathon in October next year.

Turbulent times of St Michael’s

● At the opening of the St Michael’s Church exhibition at The Willis Museum are, from left, deputy borough

12:37pm Tuesday 17th August 2010

THE story of one of Basingstoke’s oldest and most venerated buildings unfolds in an excellent exhibition at The Willis Museum.

Read all about it...Bob’s fascinating book tells history of English newspapers until 1899

Bob Clarke, with his book from Grub Street to Fleet Street, at his Basingstoke home

10:20am Tuesday 3rd August 2010

A STAGECOACH hold-up just outside Basingstoke made the headlines back in July 1754.

Memorial finds a permanent home

Les Ward in front of the memorial

10:31am Tuesday 27th July 2010

A MEMORIAL to seven men and a woman who made the ultimate sacrifice is on permanent show at The Willis Museum.

Hannah still beating a backing drum

The Horseshoe Theatre Company contingent at Basing View in the 1980s

11:33am Tuesday 20th July 2010

AMONG those who have special memories of the Horseshoe Theatre Company is local stalwart, Hannah Williams.

Haymarket play that Levin just had to see

World renowned playwright Ira Levin, in 1994

9:47am Wednesday 14th July 2010

AN adult thriller, “not suitable for children”, was a smash hit at The Haymarket Theatre back in 1994.

Get a taste of the ’70s through visual feast

9:52am Tuesday 6th July 2010

WAS the 1970s the decade taste forgot?

Scouts have been well prepared for 100 years

11:03am Tuesday 29th June 2010

BACK in 1911, Basingstoke was hurriedly fortified to repel an invading force during the Battle of Spring Wood.

To the Manor born for young schoolboy Keyth

10:14am Wednesday 23rd June 2010

MEMORIES of schooldays spent at Steventon Manor came flooding back to Keyth Vassmusson after he saw a photograph published in a recent Memories on Monday about the wartime use of the country pile.






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