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   1951
  
   First public appearance.
   The Festival of Britain was established to dispel the memory of the years of war and to celebrate a brighter future. The village of Pangbourne had its own beauty queen and her page. When the boy chosen to be the page dropped out with stage fright on the eve of the pageant, six-year-old Patrick was deputised; Mrs. Duggan stayed up all night to make the uniform.

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