QEGS pupils on relay to London, 1967
WE’RE getting there! Pupils from Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Blackburn, decided to celebrate the Queen’s birthday in 1967 by staging a relay race from East Lancashire to Windsor Castle.
Fourteen pupils were involved in the epic trek and here John Morris hands over the canister containing the school’s goodwill message to Richard Green on the outskirts of Lichfield.
The boys ran in teams non stop for three days, completing around 70 miles each day. Peter Mitchell, captain of the school’s cross country team ran the last leg of the journey presented the school’s message to Inspector R Smith of the Metropolitan Police who met them at the castle gates.
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