Building work for the benefit of young people in Didcot was given a £600 boost by members of the town’s Round Table.

Vice-chairman Paul Morgan-Owen, centre, is seen presenting cheques for £300 apiece to Denis Standen, chairman of Didcot Arts and Community Association (DACA), and Michele Robbins, organiser of Didcot Youth Centre, in 1985.

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The money, from the town’s annual bonfire and fireworks display and other fundraising events, was to go towards the conversion of Northbourne Centre, a former church, for DACA members and extensions to the youth centre in Park Road.

Didcot Youth and Community Centre is still based at Edmonds Park in Park Road.

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