A celebration for some of the swimmers who successfully completed a relay swim across the Solent from Ryde to Southsea Castle. It took the party of children and adults two hours and six minutes to swim the five miles, and they raised £500 in so doing. (I. to r.) Beverly Jackman, Angela Ralph, Elsa Bulmer (ex-mayor ofPetersfield and an East Hampshire District councillor), Captain John Stevens, RN (brandishing a collecting box), chairman of Petersfield branch which organised the event, Avril Ralph, Philip Mackenzie and Maurice Ralph. photograph by courtesy of Bert Lemmon.