PHILLIPPA Walmsley, four, a prospective pupil at the proposed Church of England primary school, helped to dig the first sod on the site. With her, from left, are school managers Mrs Neal and Mr J H Black, vicar the Rev A D Walmsley, Mrs Walmsley, school manager Lady Hohley and architect Peter Reynolds. The school was expected to cost £22,056 and to cater for 120 children.

When Adderbury won the Marlborough Trophy in Oxfordshire’s best kept village competition, a sign was erected to prove it. In the second picture, from left, are Paul Wooldridge, director of sponsors Hall’s brewery, Judy Hutchinson, High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, Sir Ashley Ponsonby, the Lord Lieutenant, and Tony Bingham and Graham Soame, from the parish council.

Pupils at Christopher Rawlins School held an end-of-term picnic in 1984. As part of the fun, deputy head Derek Wyeth played the part of a strict, old-fashioned teacher, but the youngsters, seen with him in the bottom picture, weren’t fooled.