CHRISSIE Jones won’t be appearing like this behind the bar of the Red Lion (or perhaps the future Yarnton Bell).

This was how she appeared at the King’s Arms in Banbury Road, Oxford, when she and her staff dressed in grass shirts for a Caribbean evening in 1987.

At that time, the then 24-year-old Chrissie Lewis had just become one of the youngest pub managers in the city. Halls’ Oxford brewery had put her on a management training course after being impressed with her work behind the bar.

After leaving the King’s Arms (now the Dancing Dragon), she worked at the Grapes at Yarnton (now the Turnpike), the Perch at Binsey and the Head of the River at Folly Bridge, Oxford.