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NOSTALGIA: Go back to your town in 1981

Sir William Herschel is arguably Slough’s most distinguished citizen and in 1981 the town celebrated the 200th anniversary of his discovery of the Planet Uranus.

NOSTALGIA: Go back to your town in 1983

Windsor Castle registered a new tourist guide back in 1983, but Tricia Perkins had ‘earned her wings’ by being a stewardess for eight years with the American airline, TWA.

NOSTALGIA: Go back to your town in 1994

Rocky the macaw wasn’t ‘pining for the fjords’ as he visited the Iver Nature Study Centre in 1994 and he happily perched on the shoulder of his handler David Broadbridge to officially open the ‘Rainforest Experience’.

NOSTALGIA: Go back to your area in 1986

A VALENTINE’S Day engagement in 1986 was the culmination of a series of coincidences for pensioners Vi Feasey and Albert Fenner from Britwell, Slough as the happy couple realised that it was inevitable that they would get together.