Actor Richard Briers, who played Tom in the popular TV series The Good Life, was the judge at a children’s fancy dress party.

He not only handed prizes to the winners at Milton-under-Wychwood but gave £1 notes from his own pocket to others he thought deserved recognition.

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Simon Hall, three, pictured right as Yellow Pages, won the three-five age group. Sharon Burgess, six, won the six-eight group as a flower basket.

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And the Walton family - Meg, Clare, Henry and Thomas - won the nine-11 group as the Three Blind Mice and Farmer’s Wife.

The contest in 1979 was part of a fayre organised by Wychwood Playgroup Association.

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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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