For her 1981-82 charity, the Mayoress of Canterbury, Mrs Owen Wildman, chose the RNLI as her special charity and raised more than £4,000 for Whitstable lifeboat station. Of that amount, her husband the Mayor, Councillor 'Biff Wildman (seen above), raised £1,300. He set out on a four-day sponsored walk round the new City of Canterbury, which includes Herne Bay, Whitstable and the surrounding villages, a total distance of 75 miles—a tremendous effort. Councillor Wildman then rounded off his support for the lifeboats by becoming a Shoreline member.

photograph by courtesy of Whitstable Times.