Pupils let their imaginations run wild to create a colourful display at the Westgate library in Oxford.
Children aged from three to nine at St Barnabas School in Jericho had spent lessons painting and making papier-mache puppets.
The results were so impressive that they were put on show in the library’s study area in 1977.
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The Vesuvius volcano erupted in red and blue, fireworks sparkled, Coco the Clown rose from a yoghurt carton and there were witches, a firework display, violins, guitars and a lopsided skeleton.
Headmaster Peter Penford and some of the pupils are pictured at the library admiring their work.
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Oxford central library was given a multi-million pound facelift in 2017.
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