Everyone is smiling now, but it probably didn’t last long.

After taking first prize in a cake competition, Mrs N R Bishop offered a slice of her winning creation to her husband, who said: “Not up to her usual standard.”

Her reaction was not recorded!.

The picture was taken at the City of Oxford Motor Services’ seventh horticultural show at the Cowley Road garage in 1963.

There were 246 entries in a variety of classes that year and among the winners was bus conductor Mr P Mungovan, who entered for the first time and won the Garden News Shield for his gladioli and dahlias.