There was much that went right. The 3-legged Beer Race, where candidates had to drink a ½ pint in every one of the 11 pubs was won in 17½ minutes.

The Short Story Competition attracted a good number of entries. Jane Bolton won with a story entitled Miss Said. Salad Days by the Musical Theatre Group was big success, as was space-aged Aliens, written by a local teacher and based on a cross between Shakespeare’s Tempest and the 1956 Forbidden Planet. This was produced years ahead of Return to the Forbidden Planet (1989) which became a West End hit. The Wetherby Musical Theatre performed it in 2017.