IT was on May 21, 2009 that Coffey Time first appeared in the pages of your favourite local newspaper.

Now, more than 400,000 words later, many of them penned by you with your reminiscences, I still want your memories of your teens and twenties, from the 1940s to the 1980s, and your impressions of our areas now, whether they have changed for the better or the worse.

I recently gave a talk on the old local cinemas to our Rambling Club. Remember when they used to play the National Anthem at the end of the evening and most of us would stand to attention. How the generations of today just would not understand.