HEWITT'S HISTORY FILES

One brought the egg, another the candle, another the match '“ and they went undetected.

But when Peggy came up with the idea of doing some bacon as well, she came a cropper.

"Well, bacon smells, doesn't it?", she chuckles. And the game was well and truly given away.

"We were naughty," laughs Peggy, who admits to having hated school back in the early 1930s in Washington.

"It was one of those things," says Peggy, who now lives in Arundel. "I just didn't like it at all."

Ask what kind of chap the headteacher was and the answer is a laughing "Pass!"

She adds: "But I think schools are a lot better now than they were then."

Peggy got in touch with the West Sussex Gazette after we printed a picture of the Plough Sunday celebrations at County Hall, Chichester, in 1950. She was there '“ sadly, just out of the picture. But she remembers the event well.

For full feature see West Sussex Gazette October 10