July may seem an odd time to begin Christmas preparations but it was during the height of summer that fundraising started for the Anchor Inn's annual senior citizens meal.

The majority of Leek Wootton's pensioners would fill the village pub and enjoy an entire evening of free food and drink laid on by volunteers, dubbed the pinafored ladies.

Then landlord Paul MacMahon said: "It was always a great day and the seniors, as they called themselves, looked forward to it every year. The place used to be packed - some of them wouldn't be absolutely senior but everything was still free because there was no catering for the rest of the pub."

The party was the Anchor's secondary fundraising event after its cancer ward appeal for Walsgrave hospital, which generated up to £8,000 during the late 80s and early 90s.

Money was raised by raffles, a weekly prize draw and charity auctions hosted by regulars Roger Cribbs and Tony Duke.

This picture from 1991 shows one of the tables during the event's tenth anniversary year. The pinafored ladies are Ann Smith, Gwen Faulkes, Myra Rollins and Lucy Brennan.

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