On your bike: Harry Brown, setting off from Sunderland, only to return there 7 hours, 48 minutes and 41 seconds later having covered 154 miles on the way to York Minster and back. Sponsors were asked to estimate the time he would take and the winner, only 13 seconds out, won herself a weekend holiday for two in the Yokshire Dales, kindly donated by Trust House Forte Ltd. Peter Cordnell, manager of the Washington Post House Hotel, is seen (I) bidding Harry bon voyage with Gerry Finn, honorary secretary of Sunderland lifeboat station.

The bicycle trip raised £238.50 for Sunderland branch..