1979 - 1970

'When I came downstairs with her dress she was nowhere to be found! I sent my husband and young son to search the back alley on their bikes, whilst I went out front. No sign at all. As I turned to go home an elderly lady asked me if I was looking for a little girl in a white petticoat.

The lady told me she had tried to stop a bus then turned up Edgebury. I ran on and there, opposite the school gates, was my 4 year old daughter sitting on the grass. When I asked her what she was doing she replied,"picking daisies to make a daisy chain for the May Queen." We eventually arrived at the Ceremony with five minutes to spare - and a daisy chain!'

Mrs Vera Quinn remembers well her daughter's first May Queen Crowning day:

In the 1970s much of Chislehurst became a Conservation area; and supermarket shopping arrived with the opening of Sainsbury's in the High Street.

Abba became the musical phenomenon of the decade after coming to prominence in the Eurovision Song Contest. In cinema, the 1970s were the years of Star Wars, Grease and Saturday Night Fever. To keep up with fashion both men and women could wear platform shoes!