Remember When: Teams lined up for Queen's Arms barrel race

1980: Seven teams lined up outside the Queen’s Arms in Queen Street for the start of a three-legged sponsored beer barrel rolling race.

To complete the course, the four-man teams had to visit nine pubs in the town centre and consume two pints of beer between them.

The fastest finishers were the Bright Mechanics, but they paid the price – only one team member managed to avoid being sick.

1980: An American rugby team from Fort Worth were well beaten 38-0 by Marlow Rugby Club.

The Dallas team had lost three of its four matches on its UK tour, which was arranged by Marlow Rugby Club’s press officer David Sumpter and Fort Worth coach John Quinn.

The American players had been staying at the homes of the Marlow players.

1985: Head cook Bessie Stott served her last school dinner to pupils at Woodlands Park County Primary School.

After 14 years of dishing up sausage and chips to hungry children, Mrs Stott retired to help her husband, Sidney, in his role as Woodley’s town crier.

1990: Young Sikhs in Maidenhead got off to a running start when their third annual charity race took place.

Entrants as young as three completed the four-mile route, raising £1,500 for St Mark’s Hospital.

2000: It was a far cry from Albert Square when EastEnders actress Lucy Benjamin went back to her stage school – Redroofs in Maidenhead.

Lucy, who played Lisa Fowler in EastEnders, returned to the school to film a look back at her career for a series revealing the real lives of the soap’s characters.

2000: Youngsters from a Burchetts Green school helped focus attention on a millennium year project in Maidenhead – by polishing up their photography skills.

The young pupils at Burchetts Green CE Infants School posed with a selection of cameras to highlight that each school in Maidenhead was to get a free camera and cut-price processing.

The giveaway was arranged by organisers of the Maidenhead Millennium Photography Project, who wanted residents to take photographs of the town over a three-day period in May.