Roll out the barrel! That is exactly what eight customers of the Hare and Hounds pub at Dore, near Sheffield did.

The eight, working in pairs, pushed a 36-gallon beer barrel filled with water from the pub to Whitby lifeboat station, passing through Sheffield, Barnsley, Wakefield, Leeds, Tadcaster, York, Maiton and Scarborough en route. The journey took just one week, ending on Easter Sunday. At a social evening held in Whitby crew room, landlord of the Hare and Hounds, Peter Grassland, was able to hand a cheque for £4,000 to Coxswain Peter Thomson. Sponsorship and competition money is expected to raise a further £1,000.

photograph by courtesy of Whitby Gazette.