THE Hot Gossip team, from Wittenham Athletic Club, won a challenge cup and crate of beer in the village beer barrel race in 1980. Ten teams competed and helped raise cash for the special baby care unit at the John Radcliffe Hospital, in Oxford.
The building seen in the next picture was more than 100 years old and once housed the village’s hand-pump fire engine, but it had decayed and was due to be demolished in 1964. After ceasing to be a ‘fire shed’, it was used as a bus shelter and a meeting place for teenagers.
Clare Lane, 10, and Hanah Kelaart, two, were among children who planted 50 beech trees in the car park at Wittenham Clumps in 1972. The trees were planted to mark National Tree Planting Year.
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