The year 1981 will always be remembered for street parties to celebrate Charles and Diana’s wedding.
Here we look at archive photos taken that year from around the county, including a visit from Green Cross Code actor Dave Prowse to Blackbird Leys.
We also feature a photo of members of City of Oxford Silver Band competing in Swindon.
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The band has a history that stretches back more than 125 years.
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Since its beginnings, the Cowley-based group has grown to be able to provide free music schooling to beginners and performs at musical events across the county.
Like many other bands, the family that started it could not have guessed how long it would last.
Group librarian Caroline Dalton, said in 2014 its origins dated back as early as the 1880s.
She said: "A key function of the band back then was to raise money for local causes like hospitals because it was before the beginning of the National Health Service.
“There would be parades in the streets and people would be encouraged to make donations.
“Bands were much more engaged with their communities back then.”
It has also, during its lifespan, accumulated an impressive collection of unusual musical sheets.
Ms Dalton said at the time: “You would not believe what you can find in there (the band’s archive). There are obscure brass band arrangements and operas which have long been forgotten.”
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The group was formed in 1887 as the Headington Brass Band, by A J Taylor and his three sons, John, Dan and Fred.
They got together with other men to play at a series of village fetes in Oxfordshire, including Standlake, Stanton Harcourt and Garsington.
But it was in 1914, months before the outbreak of the First World War, that they decided to buy a set of silver-plated instruments.
The cost has been lost, but an Oxford Mail report from 1962 notes: “The period of the First World War was one steady grind to pay back the debt”.
The collection of instruments have not survived but the silver-plated conductor’s baton is still kept by the band, discovered in the group’s archive this year.
After the war, many of the band’s members returned from service in the Armed Forces and set about to start repaying the debt with a concert in Headington’s Manor Park.
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This story was written by Andy Ffrench, he joined the team more than 20 years ago and now covers community news across Oxfordshire.
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