ARTHUR Turner who, as manager, led Oxford United into the Football League, took an end-of-season break from the Manor Ground at Headington to open the Osler Hospital fete in 1962.

Judging by the overcoats, it wasn’t a particularly good summer’s day. But no doubt the clown in the background cheered everyone up during the afternoon.

The Osler opened in 1926 for the treatment of tuberculosis, then a major killer in the UK. It was named after Sir William Osler, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University.

As the disease was conquered, the need for the hospital decreased and it closed in 1969 as part of the clearance of the site for the John Radcliffe Hospital.