Moo-ve along!

FARMERS flocked to Banbury Market in 1967 to check the latest livestock on offer. Not that this beast was showing much interest in anyone, with its head down and its back to the auctioneer.

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Young dancers bring in the cash

A GROUP of Witney youngsters visited the town’s hospital to deliver a cheque for £100.

They were pupils from St Mary’s and Batt schools and had raised the money with a display of May dancing at Church Green in 1983.

Emma Goddard, seven, handed the cheque to nursing officer Judith Wood, who is pictured with some of the dancers.

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High-flying visitor drops in at school

PILOT Andrew Carver dropped in for a flying visit to his old school.

The trainee helicopter pilot flew a Gazelle helicopter from the Royal Naval Air Station at Culdrose, Cornwall, to Larkmead School, Abingdon. Hundreds of pupils braved wet weather to see Andrew, 20, who had been in the Navy for 19 months, land on the school playing field.

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Horsing around in class

IT STARTED in a small way – a collection of artefacts in a corner of a classroom.

But pupils at John Hampden Infants’ School at Thame brought in so many objects in 1979 that the ‘museum’ soon outgrew its space and stretched into the school hall.

The natural history section included a blackbird’s abandoned nest with four eggs and animal and reptile skulls.

Maurice Britnell and Christopher Truran, both seven, who organised the agricultural side, are pictured with horseshoes.

The children, who wrote about the articles in class, were so proud of their collections that they invited the rest of the school to see the results of their hard work.

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An event of real note

A STUDY in concentration from young and not-so-young as members of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Regiment beat the retreat in Wallingford Market Place in 1986.