THERE'S a box in a corner of the Advertiser's archive that hasn't been looked in for decades, quietly collecting more junk on top of it. Bravely, we've recently blown the dust off and peered inside to discover a package of photographs that appear to have been taken in the early to mid 1980s to go with a column called "Pub and Club Chat" that was written by Doug Wray. It is striking, in our age of the Tier 3 lockdown when pubs are just a distant memory, how central pubs were to communities. Sadly, only the briefest of details - if we are lucky - have been recorded on the rear of each of the pictures, so if you have any information about any of them, we'd be delighted to hear: please email chris.lloyd@nne.co.uk. And apologies in advance for the spectacularly un-politically correct picture that is included among this collection...