Sandra was the May Queen in 1971

1971 was the year sixpence was suddenly only worth two-and-a-half pence, Arsenal beat Liverpool to win the FA Cup and Margaret Thatcher decided schoolchildren didn’t need free milk.
By The Newsroom
Published 27th Aug 2015, 14:11 BST

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Decimalisation, football and politics were probably the last things on the mind of 11-year-old Sandra Birchmore, who had been named Coolham School’s May Queen.

Sandra was pictured in the West Sussex County Times surrounded by her attendants, train bearers, heralds and a jester. She was crowned by her predecessor, Mandy Christmas, before the children marched from the school to the village hall.

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Among Sandra’s team were: her attendants Gillian Clifford-Smith, 11, and Carole Leach, 10; train bearer Sarah Aspinall, 6; heralds Peter Grist, 9, and Charles Brooke, 10. The court jester was Jeremy Ingall, 11.

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