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Geoff Mears Second Coxswain of Exmouth Lifeboat and Bill Parkhouse Area Manager of Watney's Push Over a Column of Two Pence Pieces at the Exeter Inn Topsha

Geoff Mears, second coxswain of Exmouth lifeboat, and Bill Parkhouse, area manager of Watney's, push over a column of two pence pieces at the Exeter Inn, Topsham.

Worth £515.96l/2 (£463.56 around the column in 2p pieces and £52.40'/2 inside) the pile was started on January I , 1978, and knocked over on December 15, 1978.

photograph by courtesy of John Sculpher.

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