Here we look back at some archive photos from the Oxford Mail from the 1960s.
U’s manager Arthur Turner is pictured in 1966, the year England won the World Cup, and a series of mosaics were placed above the counters the same year in St Aldate’s post office.
Since the 1930s, customers who visited Oxford’s main post office in St Aldate’s had got used to walking on its mosaic floor.
It was an example of old-fashioned craftsmanship and the seven motifs which formed part of it attracted admiration.
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After many years of wear, the floor became so badly chipped that it needed replacing.
But the Post Office regarded the designs so highly that when, in 1966, it was time to replace the floor, it had them copied and installed on plaques on the wall and above the counter.
We were reminded of this by reader David Brown who remembered walking on the mosaics with hundreds of other customers.
He said: “They were removed when the Post Office was modernised in 1966.
"I recall an article in the Oxford Mail covering this sad occasion and reading that the mosaics were copied as pictures that were hung on the wall of the new interior.
“Since then, modernisation has again taken place and now the pictures have disappeared altogether.”
A search in the Oxford Mail library uncovered this picture which appeared in the paper in 1973 when columnist Anthony Wood interviewed William Henry Hosken, who had designed the mosaics in the mid-1930s.
He worked for the Vitreous Mosaic and Tile Company in Battersea, London, which had developed a new synthetic material for its products.
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Mr Hosken recalled: “It was the loveliest material of its type on the market – beautiful stuff – and we used to get a lot of high-class orders not only in this country but abroad.
"We did the new lavatories for the House of Lords and a bathroom for the Duke of Windsor in Paris.
“I remember the Oxford Post Office floor because I got a call from the architect to go to the Office of Works to see him about it.
His draughtsman couldn’t get a fish right, and he asked me to do it. When I brought it back, he was most enthusiastic and said: ‘You’d better design the rest of the motifs’. So I did.
“They weren’t cheap – in fact, I would say, for those days, they were pretty expensive and quite rare in public buildings.”
The St Aldate’s post office was built in 1881 and the interior was redesigned in 1935 when the mosaic floor was installed, and in 1966 when it was removed and the images installed on the plaques.
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In June 1963, villagers in Dorchester-on-Thames made a journey 4,000 years back in time.
A cast of some 200 residents appeared in the Pageant of Dorchester - the climax to that year's Dorchester Abbey Festival.
Acted and mimed on a small, bare stage at the west end of the abbey, the pageant was performed in 20 episodes on a background of a grey curtain and a white wall.
It began with a representation of life in a 2,000 BC Stone Age settlement known to have existed near Dorchester and continued to 1961 and the dedication of Berinsfield Parish Church.
The pageant showed life in the village when it was a Celtic stronghold, a Roman garrison, a Roman-Saxon city, a a community of Puritans and in the 18th century.
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