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The mum, then aged 31, had been taking her then four-year-old son Sean to school when the incident happened on Roker View in Pudsey on July 10, 1972.

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She found herself between a rock and an 18 gallon beer barrel, which had rolled off the back of a lorry.

Speaking to the YEP 36 years after the event, she said: "It was about 10.30am, I was taking my little lad to nursery.

"I worked at a school on Valley Road as a dinner lady at the time. There was a lorry parked at the top of the hill and they were delivering beer, it was parked the wrong way round with the back end facing down the hill.

"A beer barrel came rolling off and down the hill. I was about half way up at the time and this 18 gallon barrel came bouncing down.

"The barrel was rolling towards us and the delivery man was running after it but he could not catch it.

"I remember it was a very narrow pavement. The barrel went into the gutter and I pulled my son, Sean, out of the way and stuck my foot out, thinking I would stop it. I couldn't do anything else. I had a brolly in one hand and the lad in the other.

"I put my foot out and it hit me and I went straight up into the air. I landed right in the middle of the road. The next thing I know there were some people around me, taking charge of Sean and me.

"I was taken to St Luke's hospital and I ended up being mentioned on national radio, on Dave Lee Travis's Radio 1 show. A week later, a couple came knocking at my door– they were from the YEP."

"I stayed in hospital overnight but I wasn't injured. They joked with
me at the time, saying I was lucky it was only light ale! I don't know where the barrel stopped but it carried on past me.

"I ended up getting £40 compensation from Tetleys Brewery and at the time my uncle was selling his orange Mini and I used the money to buy it. That was our first car."