REMEMBER Green Shield stamps? These children must have been sick at the sight of them.

Peers School, Littlemore, had embarked on an ambitious plan to build a £65,000 swimming pool, to which the Parents’ Association had agreed to find the final £5,000.

And one of the fundraising ideas was to collect 1,206 books of Green Shield stamps, which were given for customers by various retailers, and exchange them for a new 1.3 Morris Marina car.

A team of experts from the Esso Research Centre would then whisk the car away and find out how far it would travel on one gallon of petrol.

Then it was to be put on display at Cowley Centre, the June Fair and other events in 1973 and the public would be invited to guess, at 10p a go, how far it had gone in miles, yards, feet and inches. The winner of the car was to be revealed at the Parents’ Association’s next fundraising event, a Gala Day on the school playing field.

Pupils are pictured above carefully counting the number of Green Shield stamp books. At that stage, they had 364 books, still well short of the figure they needed.

Did they ever reach their target? And can anyone remember who won the car?