Let's go back. Way back. Remember a time before Facebook and Instagram when it was a thrill to have your photograph published in the local paper?
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As the paper of record for generations of Maitland residents there are no doubt plenty of yellowing newspaper cuttings in drawers across the Hunter.
Carefully kept clippings in a photo album or amongst grandma's cherished keepsakes of the time you or a loved one was featured in the newspaper.
We've delved into the archives and dusted off the bound copies of the Maitland Mercury to reproduce some of those beaming faces from the pages of the Mercury.
Take a walk down memory lane and look at some of the town's school children from the 1960s.
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