Five intrepid members of the Lansdowne Indoor Climbing Club, (7 to r) Paul Ward, Mike Boyce, Ian Burgess, Steve Towill and Colin Ward, ready to set out from their base camp at the Lansdowne public house, Dawlish. These men crawled— literally on hands and knees—from pub to pub in Dawlish.

Treacherous obstacles like double yellow lines were overcome by rope ladder. The equipment was lent by the Royal Marines at Lympstone, the crawl lasted from Saturday morning until Sunday mid-day and £468 was collected on the way round; half was given to a home for autistic children and half to the RNLI.

photograph by courtesy of Colin Wallace.