Grabbing the girls for rag day stunt
Farmer Andrew Ryman, who is now 72, has come forward to identify himself as one of the "kidnappers" of this young lady in Newport over 50 years ago.
It was all part of a rag day stunt by students at Edgmond's Harper Adams Agricultural College, as it was called then, where Andrew was a student at the time.
He got in touch after we carried the photo dating from October 1965 in our Pictures From The Past slot.
"I'm third from the left, holding the girl's legs," said Andrew, from Wall, near Lichfield.
"On the rag day in Newport they had a cage on a trailer behind a tractor and drove slowly through the town. All the students would rush into a shop, grab a girl shop assistant, and put her on the trailer and in the cage," he said.
"When we got to the end of Newport it would come back to the Square and they would auction the girls off. I hate to think what would happen if you tried to do that today.
"I was a student at Harper Adams. Most of us were on the one course. The college had about 250 students then, while now it's got thousands."
Andrew, who does not know who their victim was, attended Wrekin College and then worked on Peter Watson-Jones' farm at Howle Manor, near Newport, for a year.
"Then I did two years at Harper Adams, and then I came home to farm."
He is still farming today.
He does not know how much that rag day raised, but says it would be quite a lot.
"We had a bus load or two sent out in the evenings as far away as Sutton Coldfield, knocking on doors and collecting money. I think it was quite successful."
The 1965 rag week had been in aid of Cancer Research and the Shropshire Association for the Blind.
