THE coolest customers at the Wingfield Hospital fete in Oxford were 14-year-old Caroline Main and Jane Hill, 11.
They volunteered to help at the 1973 event and found themselves sitting on Ye Olde Ducking Stool.
They took it in turns to sit behind wire netting while people threw tennis balls at a target, attached to buckets of water over their heads.
Whenever a ball landed on target – about once every three minutes –one of the girls was drenched.
Brian Lawson, who was in charge of the stall and handed out three tennis balls for 5p, said: “It’s most popular with the younger blokes – some of them take great delight in it. One chap spent 50p.”
The fete, on the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre site, raised £1,500 for hospital funds.
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