The only style points the cardigan-wearing kids of today might balk at is the drape jacket and haircut.

The occasion was the Teenage Cavalcade - a day of music and dancing organised by teenagers in Leamington unhappy with their image as "bored zombies".

The event raised £1,000 for hospitals in the area, an amount that would be no mean feat today.

This picture is taken from a copy of the Morning News from July 22, 1958 sent in by Christine Roberts.

Then aged just 15, she remembers little of the furore that erupted over rock'n'roll - except that she preferred Elvis Presley to Cliff Richard.

But she does remember the illicit drink that fuelled the teenage excess in Leamington - coffee.

She said: "Coffee shops were all there was. I don't think there were any discos back then."

The Morning News reported that espresso machines were set up alongside the juke boxes in the Pump Room Gardens.

Tension had been mounting between the Teddy Boys and the elder generation for some time.

Opening the event, Leamington mayor Coun Frank Gundry called for a meeting between civic leaders and teenagers to iron out "fundamental difficulties."

Such was the curiosity at what the younger generation was getting up to that many elderly people came to see what was going on, and were pleasantly surprised.

"I feel I've misjudged them" were the words of one old lady on seeing that many of the Teddy Boys had children of their own entered in a 'bouncing baby' competition.

Proof has emerged that tram lines do still run beneath streets in Warwick.

* Leamington historian Richard King took this picture at the junction of Smith Street, St Nicholas Church Street and Priory Road during roadworks in the late 1990s.

Two lines are visible only centimetres beneath the road surface, and the groove to guide the trams' wheels is still visible, albeit filled with mud.

Mr King also remembers seeing lines in the tram company depot at Coten End when he was younger, by then the depot of a timber company.

Trams ran between Leamington and Warwick from 1881 to 1929 and some of the old cars still survive. Mr King said some of Leamington's old tramcars had been used as summerhouses at Yarningale Common, and one was now in display at Crich Tramway Village in Derbyshire while another now belongs to the Summerlee Heritage Trust, based near Glasgow.

Former Myton School pupils have been invited to help celebrate its 40th anniversary on September 26.

The school was created when Oken School merged with Beauchamp High School for Girls in 1968.

The anniversary celebrations will begin at 5.30pm and include a photographic display by former pupil and teacher Ray West, who is writing a book about the school, as well as tours of the buildings and a 'memory wall' for visitors.

Call 405702 for information.