We’ve seen plenty of pictures in recent months of Headington Secondary School, Oxford — better known as Margaret Road School.

Today it’s the turn of its neighbour — Headington Junior School.

The picture was taken in the late 1940s when the school was holding a fancy dress competition.

Judging by the large number of children dressed up, there was no shortage of participants.

One girl is dressed as the Rainbow Fairy, one boy as Ulysses, another boy poses as an accident victim, with his arm in a sling and walking with a crutch, while another carries a bundle of forms with a headband reading Red Tape.

Mums, grandmas and aunts must have been working for weeks to provide such an outstanding set of outfits and give the children the best possible chance of winning a prize.

And it seems lots of them turned up on the day of the competition to admire their handiwork and that of others.

While the children took the limelight in front of the camera, the adults crowded in at the back to make sure they were in the picture, too.

The photograph was sent in by former pupil Anne Hathaway, now Anne Heritage, of Guardian Court, Duke Street, Banbury.

She writes: “I came across it and thought it might be of interest to your readers.

“Although it was taken on the Margaret Road senior school’s front lawn, we were pupils of the junior school.”

The building at the back is Corpus Christi Church.

Mrs Heritage has managed to identify some of the pupils — Christine Sibbit, Margaret Hayward, Diana Smith, Ann Johnson, Pat Mathews and Doreen Durban.

Can anyone name any others, or remember anything about the fancy dress competition?