Olivia presents Pools win cheque - Middlesex Chronicle

This lovely article came from @80sHub who said Thinking of my dear Nanny Joan who died suddenly today in 1986 aged just 56. We all miss you Nan. Here she is back in June 1972 after sharing half a football pools win and receiving the Cheque from Olivia Newton-John in London.

£335,401 win is shared by Cranford housewife

Forty-two-year-old Cranford housewife Mrs. Joan Rolfe shares £335,401 with Mr. Peter Pettet, of Hillingdon, in a super pools win this week, and will soon move out of her St. Dunstan's Road council house into a new home of her own. Mr. Petter's money worries are also over.

The two winners, who share the Littlewoods treble chance pool for only 201 points, received their cheques at a special ceremony at London's Grosvenor Hotel on Wednesday.

Olivia Newton-John, whose records can often be found in The Top Twenty, presented the cheques.

Their win is a record summer pools hand-out. Mrs. Rolfe, who lives at 21 St. Dunstan's Road, takes home £166,907 and 37-year-old Mr. Peitet, of 16 Widmore Road. Hillingdon, gets £168,494. Both know exactly how they are going to spend their winnings.

Mrs. Rolfe, who has five children, aged between nine and 23, and who is a part-time meals supervisor at Cranford Junior School, decided to go without a summer holiday this year so that she would be able to work on turning her kitchen into "dream" kitchen for her and her family.

I spent the spring holiday improving my council house because I thought I would never be able to afford a home of my own, but now it looks as if it has all been a waste of time. she said.

Not that Mrs. Rolfe is complaining because she will now be able to afford the home she and her husband Albert, a bag-gage-handler at Heathrow have always wanted. It is incredible to think that at last we will be getting a new house and a holiday all in one go, said Mrs. Rolfe.

Mrs. Rolfe is planning to share her win with two of her children, Stanley (20) and Gerald - who had a share in.......