25 years ago: Desmond Tutu scored a victory at Valley Parade – winning thousands of people’s hearts. The Archbishop was there to urge people to help fight peacefully for freedom for his country by putting pressure on the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

50 years ago: Bolton Lane Infants School finally got round to celebrating its May Queen – two months late. The ceremony had been put off for eight-year-old Lisa Thornton because of an outbreak of mumps