WE all enjoy looking back at the past.

Perhaps we all find some comfort in the fact the world has progressed in terms of technology, medicine and in countless many other ways.

However for some the pictures of the past evoke a certain longing for a time which they are often too young to remember though it had been the world of their parents which was regaled to them.

This week we share some pictures of the past from Oswestry and the Welsh borders with thanks to the Geoff Charles Collection.

Border Counties Advertizer: A little boy with a baby owl at Oswestry Old Racecourse in 1957. Picture: Geoff Charles Collection/Wikimedia.

An owlet and child at Oswestry Racecourse in 1957. We are not sure why the little boy is pictured with the owl but would love to find out.

Border Counties Advertizer: Children of West Felton Methodist Church performing the Nativity Play in 1955. Picture by Geoff Charles/Wikimedia.

Children of West Felton Methodist Church performing the Nativity Play in 1955.

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Border Counties Advertizer: Fred and George Owen putting a rim on a wheel at Glanrafon in the Tanat Valley in 1947. Picture by Geoff Charles.

Fred and George Owen putting a rim on a wheel at Glanrafon in the Tanat Valley in Montgomeryshire in 1947. 

Border Counties Advertizer: Cricket Coaching School at Oswestry in 1952. Picture: Geoff Charles Collection.

Cricket Coaching School at Oswestry in 1952. Recognise any familiar faces?

Border Counties Advertizer: Floods in Oswestry in 1939. Picture: Geoff Charles Collection.

Floods in Oswestry during the harsh winter of 1939.