Carnival Queens

1989 - Cadia Battersby

Junior Attendants: Anna Champneys, Joanna Hayes
Crowned By: Neville Manger, Chairman, Leicestershire County Council

1988 - Zoe Twells

Junior Attendants: Laura Middleton, Helen Juggens

1987 - Charity Smart

Junior Attendants: Tracey Tongue, Michelle Tongue
Crowned By: David Ball, Manager, National Westmister Computer Centre

1986 - Tina Hall

Senior Attendants: Charity Smart
Junior Attendants: Amanda Wallis
Crowned By: Tony Marmont, Carters

1985 - Alicia Webster

Senior Attendants: Ruth Webster
Junior Attendants: Zoe Beachamp, Gemma Farnell
Page Boy: Matthew Holdsworth

1984 - Sarah Wilson

1983 - Annette Hardy

Senior Attendants: Caroline Barton
Junior Attendants: Andrea Watson, Emma Peters

1982 - Andrea Chester

Senior Attendants: Diane Mott, Karen Freestone, Helen Simms
Junior Attendants: Trudie Swift, Karen Hutchinson
Page Boy: Richard Rogers
Crowned By: Celia Bryan

1981 - Judith Morley

Senior Attendants: Kathryn Sharpe

1980 - Tania King

Senior Attendants: Lorraine Hill, Maxine Hill
Junior Attendants: Belinda Stark, Sarah Marrable, Tracey Mills
Page Boy: Richard Rogers, Ian Emery, Nicholas Mills
Crowned By: Major General R. E. Coaker

1979 - Julia Sharpe

Senior Attendants: Janice Blakeway, Denise Chaplin
Junior Attendants: Kirsty Berridge, Amanda Dockerty
Page Boy: Martin Dunmore, Stuart Bond
Crowned By: Stephen Dorrell MP

1978 - Lesley Downes

Senior Attendants: Carolyn Fowell, Marilyn Newsom
Junior Attendants: Jane Ward, Liza Fagan
Page Boy: Robert Mills, Ian Dunmore
Crowned By: Viv Evans, Radio Trent DJ
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1977 - Jackie Wardle

Senior Attendants: Allison Kendall, Christine Berrington
Junior Attendants: Judith Morley, Dawn Taylor, Georgina Miles
Page Boy: Jonathan Ward, John Pendleton, Richard Dunbar
Crowned By: J. G . Pickard,Leicester Royal Infirmary

1976 - Deborah Pike

Senior Attendants: Susan Hardy, Sandra Chaplin
Junior Attendants: Kerrie Bennett, Joanne Presley
Page Boy: Andrew Beale, Timothy Buffham

1975 - Diane Wearing

Senior Attendants: Kathleen Shaw, Julie Brooks
Junior Attendants: Sally Uppal, Sally Ash
Page Boy: John Woods, David Barker

1974 - Ann Cooper

Senior Attendants: Roberta Lloyd, Vanessa Perkins
Junior Attendants: Linda Spencer, Jenny Baker
Page Boy: Andrew Ainsworth

1973 - Sheila Hall

Senior Attendants: Roberta Lloyd, Hazel Thompson
Junior Attendants: Gail Musselwhite, Shemene Uppal
Page Boy: Mark Marrablem, Richard Bellamy

1972 - Donna Moseley

Senior Attendants: Sheila Hall, Ann Cooper
Junior Attendants: Jayne Hudson, Denise Chaplin
Page Boy: Timothy Bellerby, Graham Kenyon

1971 - Mary Anthony

Senior Attendants: Yvonne Relph, Julie Baxter
Junior Attendants: Jenny Rickman, Jane King
Page Boy: Martin Ritchie, Rajan Uppal

1970 - Lorraine Marchant

Senior Attendants: Jeanette Caddick, Joyce Schrot.
Junior Attendants: Sharon Stallard, Karen Turner
Page Boy: Micheal Barker, Peter Campbell
Crowned By: Alan Hinton - Derby County footballer

1969 - Gaynor Bent

Senior Attendants: Ruth White, Christine Pytell
Junior Attendants: Karen Grant, Annette Bramley
Page Boy: William Rock, Andrew Vickers

1968 - Thelma Baxter

Senior Attendants: Pauline Gatcombe, Jean Salton
Junior Attendants: Jane Hodgetts, Sangeeta Uppal
Page Boy: Michael Evans, Michael Lilley
Crowned By: Gaston Viens, Major of Orly

1967 - Susan Marshall

Senior Attendants: Susan Shepherd, Brenda Gold
Junior Attendants: Linda Campbell, Karen Mellors
Page Boy: Julian Gardner, Neil Ritchie

1966 - Janet Higgins

Senior Attendants: Marilyn Peacock, Janet Gold
Junior Attendants: Isobel Golding, Susan Edwards
Page Boy: Mark Bott, Peter Mellors

1965 - Sheila Chard

Senior Attendants: Stephanie Powell, Jacqueline Button
Junior Attendants: Roberta Lloyd, Linda Spencer
Page Boy: Andrew Rock, Mark Bott

1964 - Christine Jackson

Senior Attendants: Sheila Chard, Susan Gatcombe
Junior Attendants: Helen Lilley, Susan Cooke?
Page Boy: Ian Ritchie, Geoffrey Evans.

1963 - Eileen Large

Senior Attendants: Christine Jackson, Margaret Betsworth
Junior Attendants: Julie Baxter, Elizabeth Friend?
Page Boy: Robert Stone, Philip Bott

1962 - Christine Danvers

Senior Attendants: Marlene Gibson, Margaret Stone
Junior Attendants: Lesley Carlton, Pauline Ufton
Page Boy: Ian Barrowcliffe, Martin Higson

1961 - Janet Chadburn

Senior Attendants: Barbara Coe, Avril Fairweather
Junior Attendants: Ann Roberts
Held at Kingston Fields

1960 - Margaret Brocklesby

Senior Attendants: Pat Talton, Carol North
Junior Attendants: Judith Carpenter, Rachel Carpenter
Page Boy: Alan Bond, Jimmy Birkett
Crowned By: Ted Moult
Held at Kingston Fields

1959 - Margaret Porter

Senior Attendants: Janet Chadburn, Stephanie Ann Hall
Junior Attendants: Rosalind Powell, Maureen Turner
Page Boy: Brian Caddick, Norman Sketchley

1958 - Christine Perkins?

Senior Attendants: Pat Billings?, Ann Husbands?
Junior Attendants: Jackie Stevens, Jean Golding

1957 - Rosaline Saddington

Senior Attendants: Marlene Orridge, Celia Wright
Junior Attendants: Gillian Deacon, Ann Hardy
Crowned By: Simon Kester, TV interviewer
Ox Roasting revived, Norman Brown wins ?100 on State Your Case TV prog.

1956 - Anne Porter

Senior Attendants: Christine Wilson, Jill Stevenson, Jill Gamble, Dora Porter
Junior Attendants: Yvonne Slater, Susan Golding
Page Boy: Colin Smith, David Spencer
Crowned By: Pearly King & Queen of Willesden

1955 - Jean Cowdell

Senior Attendants: Betty Hutchinson

1954 - Shirley Stephens

First TractionEngine Rally

1953 - Jennifer Golding

Junior Attendants: Deirdre Richards, Sandra Rowbotham
Page Boy: David Clarke, Christopher Crowton

1952 - Ruby Chaplin

Senior Attendants: Pat Cooper, Barbara Edmunds, Jean Blakeway, Ena Syson
Junior Attendants: Pat Wilders, Jane Cook
Page Boy: David Orme
Crowned By: Harry Fowler, Actor

1951 - Ann Stevenson

Senior Attendants: Margaret Jones, Vera Bassett, Mary Marshall, Marjorie Stevenson
Crowned By: Randolph Turpin, Boxer

1950 - Gillian Dean

Senior Attendants: Jennifer Golding, Janet Golding, Rita Wright, Ann Stevenson

1939 - Lucy Large

Senior Attendants: Mary Storer, Alice Pegg, Jean Wilson, Vera Bowler
Junior Attendants: Jean Botham, Sheila Kelly, Jean Watkins ?
Page Boy: Derek Smith, Keith Gardiner
Crowned By: D S Butler, Mayor of Derby

1938 - Kathleen Hickling

Senior Attendants: Lucy Large, Mary Woolley, Doris Brown, Margaret Hinds
Junior Attendants: Eileen Baxter, Pamela ?

1937 - Margaret Young

Senior Attendants: Mary Chamberlain, Doreen Bramley, Joy Surrage, Marjorie Harrison
Junior Attendants: Dorothy Wright, Betty Meson
Page Boy: Norman Smith, Dennis Storer
23 Bands, 10,000 people