Remember When: Spinning a record-breaking yarn

1974: Borough macebearer Fred Garrett – the Honourable Fred as he was sometimes called – retired after serving the council since 1958.

Over 16 years, he attended to a succession of mayors and acted as majordomo at the town hall.

1979: The ancient custom of clipping the church was performed on Mothering Sunday in Cookham Dean.

The event saw members of the congregation join hands and embrace the mother church by circling it in a ring.

The origins of the custom are unclear, with some believing it even dated back to pre-Christian days.

1984: A group of mums at Wessex Infants’ School got creative by knitting and making toys for the school Easter fair.

A group of pupils also wore nurses’ outfits created by their mums for the fair.

1989: Miners were tunnelling 14 metres below the ground at Maidenhead’s Thicket to relocate a telecommunications nerve centre.

British Telecom constructed one of its deepest tunnels in advance of the construction of the new trunk road between the M4 and M40.

Work needed to be done to switch cabling into ducting far below the new motorway link.

1989: Marlow milkman Richard Budd received a long-service present – two easy chairs – from Cliffords Dairies after completing 30 years as a yardsman and assistant on milkrounds in the town.

He began working with Hughes Dairy at Marlow in 1959 and stayed with the company when it came under the Cliffords banner.

1994: Lions, tigers, giraffes and more than a few little monkeys came in two by two at St Peter’s Church Hall for a Noah’s Ark Easter holiday workshop.

Youngsters aged from five to eight built an ark and made animal masks.

1999: Sue Macniven was great at spinning yarns – so good, in fact, that she broke a world record.

Sue, from Maidenhead, travelled to Tasmania, Australia, to take part in the 1999 Bothwell International Highland Spin.

From just 10 grams of raw wool, Sue spun a world record-breaking 943.49m, smashing the previous world record by almost 300 metres.