Here we feature photos from the Oxford Mail archive in 1980.
It was the year when the city welcomed celebrities including pop artist Andy Warhol and comedy actor John Inman.
It was the end of the line for the MG at Pressed Steel in Cowley, while St Swithun's Church in Kennington staged a flower festival.
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John Inman was a big name in 1980 as he starred in TV series Are You Being Served.
So it was quite a coup for a school in Blackbird Leys to get him to visit.
But the arrival of internationally renowned pop artist Andy Warhol caused even more of a stir.
His purpose was to attend a promotional party for his book of celebrity photographs, Exposures, which was held at 29 Charlbury Road, a large North Oxford home belonging to St Antony’s College.
At the time it was where college Warden, Sir Raymond Carr, and his family were living.
Oxford Times writer Chris Gray recalled in 2014: "Bigger than ever in Britain at the time, according to his biographer Victor Bockris, Warhol was on a three-day visit to London, staying at the Ritz Hotel.
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"Matthew Carr was a talented portrait painter and well-known figure on the Oxford student social scene.
"He heard on the grapevine that Warhol was eager to meet some of Oxford’s smarter undergraduates and persuaded his parents to allow use of the family home for the purpose. The college butler poured the cocktails.
"I was present at the party both as a friend of Matthew’s and as a reporter for the Oxford Mail. Rob Judges, one of the Mail’s photographers, was there as well.
"There were older people present at the Charlbury Road party, too, friends of Raymond Carr in the main, keen to cast an appraising eye over the American visitor.
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"They included novelist Iris Murdoch, who lived just along the road, and Lord Goodman, the Master of University College, who was with his regular companion of the day, Ann Fleming, the widow of James Bond’s creator Ian Fleming."
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This story was written by Andy Ffrench, he joined the team more than 20 years ago and now covers community news across Oxfordshire.
Get in touch with him by emailing: Andy.ffrench@newsquest.co.uk
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