Remember When: Queen's visit to Maidenhead Citizens Advice Bureau

1974: Margaret Lauritzen and Lyn Morris decided to break into the doll-making market – so they called themselves Dolls With A Difference, put an ad in the Advertiser, and were soon inundated with calls.

All their dolls were hand-made and each of the 200 or so they had made had a name.

1979: The Ringers pub in Bray High Street was presented with the Campaign for Real Ale Pub of the Year Award for Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead.

It was the first freehouse in the area to win the award.

1984: Budding young inventors, laden with all manner of mechanically movable objects, filed into Altwood School hall ready to set their wheels in motion.

The hall was the venue for the second technology fair, open to all primary schools in the Windsor and Maidenhead area.

The 250 entries included a coal mine model, a windmill, a crane and several go-karts.

1989: Hundreds of Maidonians braved the elements for a glimpse of The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh as they visited the town’s Citizens Advice Bureau.

Red, white and blue bunting festooned the buildings along Kennet Road and people lined the route to the CAB office at Redcote House in Holmanleaze.

One youngster, six-year-old Chloe Hill, broke through the barriers to give flowers to the Queen, with the encouragement of a smiling Prince Philip.

1994: The planting of a 30ft English oak tree symbolised the beginning of the construction phase at Legoland Windsor – then known as Lego World.

Using a Lego spade, Lego Group chief executive Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen and two local boys ‘planted’ the tree in the middle of the site after it was lowered into position by a huge crane.

1994: Brows furrowed in deep concentration as 102 young contestants were locked in silent battle at the 20th Maidenhead Junior Chess Congress.

The three days of gruelling play in the hushed hall of Desborough School attracted players from as far away as South Wales, Somerset and Essex.

1999: Maidenhead rallied to the aid of Kosovan refugees displaced by war.

The huge public response to the Kosovan crisis prompted the setting up of emergency aid collection points in the town, as charities struggled to cope with the influx of clothes, blankets and toiletries.

More than 100 Maidenhead Scouts manned an emergency aid centre at their headquarters in Holmanleaze, boxing up clothes, blankets and sheets.