Community centres in Oxford have produced a host of activities for families over the years.
Serious topics have been discussed at public meetings, local services have been provided, and there has been plenty of fun and laughter in between, as these pictures show.
Picture 1 was taken in 1989 when Cutteslowe community centre in Wren Road was opened, after its predecessor, described as a tumbledown mission hall, had been demolished.
The new building, which cost £187,000, included a local housing office, chiropody clinic, creche, keep fit classes and a youth group as well as activities for younger children.
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Clowning around on the opening day were, left to right, Emma Pettifer, seven, Becky Woodward, six, and Donna Pettifer, nine.
There was plenty of fun, too, when Jericho community centre organised a street fair.
More than 30 stalls, mostly run by local groups, lined Canal Street, tempting visitors to take part in games and buy all types of goods on sale.
Landlords of local pubs joined in the fun, taking turns in the stocks and being pelted with wet sponges.
Other attractions included a giant inflatable, children’s roundabout, food and live music by six bands.
Stallholder Jane Ansell is seen in Picture 2 showing some of her beads to nine-year-old Jessica Dawkins.
In Picture 3, children are enjoying a party with a clown at West Oxford community centre in Binsey Lane in 1987.
Lord Mayor Betty Standingford joined in the fun enjoyed by two to eight-year-olds in the centre’s after-school club.
Lucy Crisp, left, and Fiona Minns, in Picture 4, were intrigued by a huge matchbox, one of the items on display at an exhibition of matchboxes and labels at the Ferry Centre in North Oxford in 1979.
The Oxford Mail headline above their photograph was, appropriately, ‘Light entertainment’.
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The three exhibitors from Oxfordshire were Rodney Hedges, of Kidlington, Frank Hales, of Kennington, and Thomas Gibbard, of Didcot.
Picture 5 was taken on babies’ clinic day at Rose Hill community centre in 1958.
Youngsters attending the playgroup at Blackbird Leys community centre in 1965 are seen in Picture 6.
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