10 photos of 1971 when a crocodile came to Oxpens in Oxford

There was a wet race at Chalgrove, a crocodile at a circus in Oxpens, and a record-breaking attempt to make the longest hand-rolled cigarette in Oxford.

Sir Robert Fossett brought his circus to Oxpens and youngsters were allowed to get very close to a baby crocodile.

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Students were taking a break from their studies by trying to get into record books with a very long cigarette outside the Clarendon building.

It was the year when postal workers went on strike for the first time in an attempt to win a 19 per cent pay rise.

British Leyland launched the Morris Marina, and Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher proposed to end free school milk.

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