Sweet treats for youngsters in children’s ward
IT WAS Hansel and Gretel in real life for these children when they were presented with this magnificent gingerbread house.
But there was no witch behind its doors – only a fairy godmother in the shape of Helen Randall, of Woodstock.
She had the cake made, then decorated it herself with sweets from the sweet shop she owned before presenting it in 1974 to the young patients in the children’s ward at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford.
The cake matched the picture in the Hansel and Gretel story book Mrs Randall also gave to the ward.
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