FRENCH, Chinese and Indian tourists swelled the ranks of Oxford youngsters making merry mayhem of dough painting at the Old Fire Station in July 1980.

The young visitors joined 50 local children aged between three and eight to cause havoc with their paint brushes each morning in the Summertime for Children programme.

Dough painting, an American invention, proved to be a big success. Children model the dough, bake it, then paint it. The children also helped decorate the walls of the Fire Station with a giant, science fiction mural featuring intergalactic monsters, spiders and a space carrot.