Paintwork takes on a new scale (From Oxford Mail)

Paintwork takes on a new scale

3:00pm Monday 30th January 2012 in Memory Lane By John Chipperfield

THE dragon needed a lick of paint – and these girls were prepared to give up part of their school holiday to provide it.

Jim Cox, head of New Marston Primary School in Copse Lane, Oxford, with the help of Northway Community Association, organised a week-long programme of activities for pupils during the Christmas holiday in January 1973.

Helen Parish, 10, and Elaine Sanders, nine, were among them, giving the dragon a new look for the New Year.