WE love taking a trip down memory lane and reminiscing about when celebrities visited the area.

Thanks to Looking Back regular Esmee Nicholls for sending us some pictures of famous faces.

Esmee, of Littlemoor, Weymouth, is quite the star spotter.

First we have two recognisable TV faces, Les Dennis of Family Fortunes fame and Bradley Walsh, presenter of The Chase, visiting Came Down Golf Club, at Higher Came near Dorchester, for a charity golf event.

And, as Esmee notes, they both look ‘much younger’ in these photos.

Esmee has also enclosed a couple of photos of some filming she stumbled upon on a visit to Longleat. She managed to get a picture of Hollywood star Catherine Zeta Jones, originally of The Darling Buds of May fame, and of Eric Idle. She also got a picture of the late Stratford Johns, the late star of Z Cars, who is sat in the chair in the same picture as Welsh-born Catherine.

“I can’t remember what film it was,” Esmee writes. “The film wasn’t a great success and it was before Catherine went to America.”

We recently featured some photographs of Nick Berry filming Harbour Lights at West Bay. Apparently Esmee has some pictures of Nick Berry, formerly of EastEnders and Heartbeat fame, filming at the harbour, but can’t find them at present!

But it would seem as though Esmee is quite the star spotter.

She writes: “I have a tablecloth which I get stars to sign and I embroider them. I walked right across the filming of Harbour Lights and it wasn’t the first time - I did it to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall too - in order to get a signature. I have over 200 signatures but now it is a great deal more difficult as security is heightened, but I have albums of photos.”

Esmee also encountered the Irish singer Dana, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest at Weymouth Pavilion.

While still a schoolgirl Dana won the contest in 1970 with All Kinds of Everything.

A more recent celebrity spotting of Esmee’s was seeing pop star Will Young attend a wedding in Weymouth not long after he shot to fame in music talent show Pop Idol.

Will attended the wedding of his partner’s sister Shonagh Doyle at St Augustine’s Church on Dorchester Road, Lodmoor. Following the 50 minute ceremony he was whisked off in a blue Audi to the reception at a hotel on the Esplanade.

Esmee has also let us know that she had a recent trip to Lincolnshire to ride in the famous Lancaster Bomber aircraft, which dropped the bouncing bomb to blow up the dam and flood the surrounding area.

Of course, as Esmee reminds us, they rehearsed dropping the bomb right here at The Fleet, just off Chesil Beach.

The bouncing bomb was designed by Barnes Wallis and immortalised in the film The Dam Busters. In September 1942 the first full-scale test drops of the bomb were carried out using a modified Vickers Wellington bomber.

We were also delighted to hear that Esmee greatly enjoyed our recent publication Days Gone By, which was a much welcome trip down memory lane featuring her former school the Convent of the Sacred Hearts School n Weymouth, which she attended for eight years.

n Thanks to Esmee as always for her wonderful photos.

All your photos help make this page what it is, so do keep them coming and send them in to the email address below or to Joanna Davis, Dorset Echo, Hampshire Road, Granby Industrial Estate, Weymouth, Dorset, DT4 9XD. We’d also love to hear from anyone who can shed light upon the Catherine Zeta Jones and Eric Idle filming project at Longleat.