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RECOGNISE THE FACES?: Newmarket’s St Louis Primary School welcomes Space Shuttle in 1985




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Cast your mind back 31 years . Were you a pupil at St Louis primary school in Newmarket ? If so you may remember in 1985 the school had a space age visitor.

A model of the US Space Shuttle was brought to the school as part of a nationwide effort to raise funds for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). The model was one fifth life-size and funds raised went towards the cost of a new lifeboat at Sheringham in Norfolk.