THE women who ran our pubs weren’t always stuck behind the bar or in the kitchen.

Many of them enjoyed a good social life.

At times, trips would be organised to breweries to show them how the beer they and their menfolk sold was made.

But there were other occasions when work would be completely forgotten.

They would head to the coast or somewhere inland where they could enjoy a well-deserved day out.

The picture above was taken on April 27, 1972 when the members of the Oxford and District Licensed Victuallers Women’s Auxiliary League visited the Guinness Brewery at Park Royal, London.

It is possible, though not certain, that the other two pictures were taken at the same time.

The lady in the white hat, flowery dress and long shawl seems to appear in all of them.

The photographs come from Jennie Fogden-Strange, of Sandleigh Road, Wootton, near Abingdon.

Her parents, Ted and Myrtle Heath, were licensees of three Oxford pubs at different times – the Plumbers Arms in Speedwell Street, the Bullingdon Arms (now the Marsh Harrier) in Marsh Road, Cowley, and Exeter Hall in Oxford Road, Cowley.

The pictures are part of a large collection of LVA pictures found in their belongings.

More will be published soon in Memory Lane.