Children from St Michael’s School in Marston Road, Oxford, learned all about Easter when they performed a passion play in 1987.
And giving an authentic touch to Jesus’s triumphant ride into Jerusalem was Hot Chocolate, the donkey.
With six-year-old Joe Withers in the saddle and Mary Perry leading him, the long-eared mount led a procession from the school to St Michael & All Angels Church.
Diana French, the teacher who organised the play, was apprehensive – Hot Donkey was a circus donkey and a “bit temperamental”.
Although he wasn’t allowed in the church, he behaved perfectly during the half-mile walk from the school to the church.
The other picture shows Steve Couch carrying the cross at the head of a Good Friday procession through Thame in 1992.
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