There are plenty of school teams in this picture archive, including from Blessed George Napier School. The Banbury primary school had such success at training up the table tennis champions of the future that it applied for sports college status in 2002. Keen table tennis players at Blessed George Napier School, Banbury, as the school applied for Sports College status, 2002 (Image: Kevin Harvey)READ MORE: Benson skatepark closed after oil poured on surfacePrivate clubs are also pictured here, with the Kidlington team playing a game just before the renovation of their ping pong pavilion began in 2008. Similarly, the leader of a Didcot club, Keith Walton, was pictured in the same year in the hopes of upgrading the team's facilities from a disused rail building to somewhere more up to scratch. Take a look back through this Oxford Mail picture archive to see nostalgic photos of table tennis tournaments in the county over the years.