Staff from one of Oxford’s premier hotels undertook a charity walk, as reported in the Oxford Mail 32 years ago.
Assistant banqueting manager Tony Clarke, left, who was 21 at the time, and Ian Sergeant, chef, who was 22, undertook a challenge with another hotel from Cambridge.
They walked back to their home city after starting out in the other university city.
They started on a Saturday morning and passed each other at Newport Pagnell later that evening. They arrived on Sunday. Mr Clarke and Mr Sergeant’s huge walking feat took 25-and-a-quarter hours.
The pair hoped to raise £400 from the sponsored walk to pay for two new wheelchairs for the children’s ward at the John Radcliffe Hospital.
The money from the Cambridge pair, Keith Belliss and John Gardiner, was spent on leukaemia research.
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