Remember When: Poll tax meeting collapsed amid mass protest

1985: Debbie Henry, who worked for the National Trust as a forester at Cliveden, tried to outwit the panel when she appeared on the television programme What’s My Line? – which saw celebrities try to guess contestants’ jobs.

Debbie mimed sharpening a chainsaw for a panel including Ernie Wise, Geoffrey Archer, Jilly Cooper and George Gale.

Jilly Cooper came up with the right answer.

1990: Poll tax tensions erupted outside Maidenhead Town Hall as police struggled to contain protesters trying to gain entry to the meeting.

A district council meeting – convened to set the community charge (poll tax) at £449 – collapsed in chaos.

One police officer estimated between 500 and 700 people were present at the height of the protest.

1995: Despite pouring rain, there were sunny smiles all round at the opening of a new environmental area at White Waltham CE Primary School.

It featured a stage for drama productions, a covered bird hide where pupils could sit and watch wildlife, trees and bedded areas for planting.

2000: A new Royal Borough bus service – introduced after Hurley’s main bus link was controversially axed by a private company – did not go down well with residents.

The last borough bus of the day from Maidenhead to the village left at 2.25pm – some three hours before some residents finished work.

2000: The Maidenhead and District Housing Association announced it will be one of the first in the country to build ‘tomorrow’s houses today’.

The association planned 19 one-bed flats, six two-bedroom houses and two three-bedroom houses at Greenfields – all specially adapted to be energy efficient.