Jean remembers another notable incident, 'This chap put afloat in for the Carnival as Steptoe and Son, and he had a lovely big white horse. We all assembled up at the Recreation ground for the prize giving and suddenly there was a terrible kerfuffle and this horse broke away from the cart and the shafts were still on him. He galloped all round the field.' Pam Smith recalls, 'There was this almighty bang, one of the floats had a space rocket and something was fired off.' Jean says, 'I leapt out to try to stop it and other people were trying to do the

same. And it went down that narrow way by the entrance to the Hall, it galloped down there. How it didn't kill anybody I don't know because there were people milling about trying to come up to the field. It went all the way down the High Street, and they managed to get it into Jack Smith's field. The poor chap was in a terrible state, he nearly passed out, because he was trying to hang onto it, but he just had to let go.' Jack Smith remembers that it wasn't the only incident that day, 'Mr. Sanderson's pony broke the shafts on the trap the same day.'