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29 October 2014

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Win a copy of one of the pictures below

The Queen's visit to Shrewsbury in 1952

Click on one of the pictures below and take a trip down Memory Lane. If you have any special memories connected to the places pictured, you could win a copy of one of the pictures.

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If you like these historic photographs, why not send one to a friend. Take a look at our Memory Lane e-cards.

Feeling creative? If you can paint pictures with words as well as photographs, take a look at The Write Stuff.

We need your help to make "A Sense of Place"
What does Shropshire sound like? What do Telford people think of Shrewsbury people? We need you to answer these and other questions.

These photographs originate from a survey carried out in 1960. They come from a collection of over 3000 historic photographs of Shropshire owned by the local photography company Abbeycolor.

Click on the one of the pictures below and take a trip down Memory Lane. If you can recognise any of the places photographed and it triggers a memory for you, tell us all about it and we'll send a copy of the picture to the first 50 people who respond.

If you've got any old photographs of your own that you'd like to share with us. E-mail them to shropshire@bbc.co.uk