Newcomers lead the Queen’s Silver Jubilee celebrations
June 1977
The village celebrated the Queen’s Silver Jubilee with much cheering and flag-waving. Recent village arrivals Val Corbett and Joyce Lear, who both moved to Piccotts End earlier in the decade, got the party under way, arranging a road closure and festooning it with flags and bunting. Afterwards a very tired but elated Val said: ‘I can’t remember much about it except that it was all very jolly. It was very well attended and I do remember all of us singing a very off-key God Save the Queen after many glasses of wine followed by gales of laughter.’