A team takes the strain as they set off
CROWDS turned out in 1979 to support a stretcher race held in Headington, Oxford.
More than 150 people in five-man teams, including police, firemen and rugby players, entered the mile-and-a-half race around seven pubs.
The team pictured were leaving the Black Boy, in Old High Street.
The stretcher bearers and their ‘patients’ raised more than £2,000 to help furnish the Oxford Eye Hospital and to buy equipment for the children’s unit at the Radcliffe Infirmary.
The race was the brainchild of Oxford fireman Kerry Bunt.
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