Plans for the Golden Jubilee celebrations are going from strength to strength. Box Hill is promised a day of fun and entertainment. If you are not quite up to a Marathon standard how about a bit of training for the pram race, which will start the celebrations on Monday 3rd June? The distance from start to finish, at Smith and Western, to the finishing line at the Hand-in-Hand is just over a mile and pram pushers and occupants will be obliged to make a compulsory pit stop. Get ahead - get a pram!

Now included in the attractions are are fun things for children of all ages - a crazy cottage (a bouncy house with several rooms), a big inflatable slide and a bungee run. Children are invited to take part in the fancy dress - kings, queens, soldiers or nurses. A clown will be providing extra entertainment. A jazz band will be playing during the afternoon and there will also be a band providing music in the evening. Ladies and Gents, why not come along in 50's gear? Ladies dress for a garden party - it is the Golden Jubilee, just think Buckingham Palace - and find (or make!) a posh hat. Gents - as spivs or teddy boys. Prizes for the best outfit! The full programme for the Jubilee celebrations will be published in the May issue of BOX HILL NEWS.

Funds are still coming in - another £104 from the monthly quiz night raffle at the Hand-in-Hand; the afternoon and evening WI's joined together for a successful and sociable ploughman's lunch and raised £150. Ron Lubbock is organising Junktique on 4th May, at the Village Hall. And Box Hill Neighbourhood Council be holding a Race Night at the Hand-in-Hand on 11th may. Tickets from Daphne Ladell (01737 843644), £8 dinner and pudding.

We still need your recollections for our display - something that was memorable to you over the last 50 years, be it at the beginning of the Queen's reign or quite recent, from a personal experience or big event, light-hearted or serious. Please send your poem, piece of prose or short anecdote to BOX HILL NEWS, to reach the Editor by 30th april. Photographs of local events would also be of interest.