PERSHORE College of Horticulture worker Kimbra Johnson holds a giant lemon grown in a college greenhouse 21 years ago.

In 1986 the college went into the record books with a 4lb 11oz lemon, a new British first. The lemon that appeared in the photograph of 1989 topped that effort weighing in at an astonishing 5lb 6½oz.

But despite its size it was not to be entered for any records. The giant lemon was soon destined to be whipped into a mousse. College spokesman Gareth Hughes said it would be going on display at the National Conference of Nurserymen at the college before being made into a pudding. “We could go on for ever growing these things,” he said.

(Photograph from our 1989 files).