This year's Towersey festival had a retro feel to it.

The organisers always try to get a pre-opening concert of music not normally associated with the mainstream of the festival - jazz bands and Cockney entertainers Chas and Dave have done the honours in the past.

This year the era of skiffle and especially the songs of the late Lonnie Donegan attracted the crowds.

The three day weekend festival attracted more than 10,000 people to events in the tiny village near Thame.

It started 43 years ago as a way of raising money to buy the village playing fields, and the fields are still the centrepoint of the festival.

This year there was an international line-up again, singers and dancers coming from India and Africa as well as all over the UK.

Organisers put on the Festival Bus, a former London Routemaster bus, to ferry people to and from the showground from Thame town centre and the leisure centre in Oxford Road.

As well as the formal concerts there were scores of workshops, ceilidhs and street entertainment as well as music and craft stalls, a children's festival and a special series of events for teenagers.

Events also took place in St Catherine's Church and at the Three Horseshoes pub.

One of the dance groups at the pub on Saturday was Owlswick Morris, now based at Twyford near Bicester but originating from the old Shoulder of Mutton pub at Owlswick near Thame. They were celebrating 25 years of dancing.

Money from the festival will go to help village and local organisations and charities.