23 April 1910 - Crowds gathered at Hademore when word got around that Claude Grahame-White's plane was on the ground.

The plane was blown over and damaged in the gale of Sunday night - 24 April.

Grahame-White (with leather flying cap and white scarf) accompanying his damaged plane to Lichfield Railway station for transporting back to London

Miss Whittington chosen at dance organised by youth club, first event of coronation festivities.

L to right: Helen Peck, Freda Boston, Gillian Allsopp, Barbara Phillips, June Phillips, Sheila Farnsworth

Coronation Carnival Procession - Saturday 6 June 1953

Queen - Freda Boston, attendants left to right, back to front Gillian Allsopp, June Phillips, Sheila Farnsworth, Barbara Phillips

Whittington float at Lichfield August Bank Holiday Parade 1953

Left to right: Freda Boston, Gillian Allsopp, June Phillips, Sheila Farnsworth, Barbara Phillips

Pancake Race on Shrove Tuesday - the old custom revived in 1954

Another race from the 1950's

Brenda Hood won the pancake race 12 times out of her 13 entries. This photo shows her winning in 1965, the second year she entered.