APRIL 16, 1967

WHEN the High Bailiff of Alcester, Mr Roger Boland, decided to revive the town's carnival after 13 years he came face to face with a tricky problem-there was no crown for the carnival queen.

In the past it seems Alcester carnival queens had to be satisfied with crowns of cardboard which, after all, it not the kind of 'royal' treatment a queen should come to expect.

Luckily there will be no embarrassment for organisers this year or murmurs of 'penny pinchers' from visitors to the coronation on May 13.

For the sleepy town of Bidford-on-Avon has offered its fine £25 diamante crown to grace the occasion.

And so at tomorrow's carnival dance when the queen will be chosen, the lucky winner can be sure of a splendid coronation next month.

The problem now remains for the panel of judges, led by England and Worcestershire cricketer Tom Graveney to choose her. They have a difficult task ahead of them-at least 15 pretty girls have entered the competition.

The committee formed to organise the carnival decided not to go to the expense of buying a crown until they know whether staging a festival of this type in the town every year will be a success.

To enter the competition the girls must live within a four mile radius of Alcester and be aged over 15. There is no age maximum so Granny can enter if she wants to.