November 29, 1963 – Mr. Pastry (plus the TV chimpanzees) spend a profitable day in town – “Television’s Mr. Pastry (Richard Hearne) toured Reading in an open-backed lorry on Saturday, appealing for funds for his national children’s swimming pool fund.
The comedian was received by the Mayor, Coun. J. C. H. Butcher, at the Town Hall in the morning, where he also met some of Reading’s mentally handicapped children.
In the afternoon he opened an autumn fair at the Olympia Ballroom, being run jointly by the Reading Society for Mentally-Handicapped Children and the League of Friends of Borocourt and associated hospitals.
Mr. Pastry received a £5 cheque from each of these bodies, for his swimming pool effort.”
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