Asking people to sponsor you to do things was very much the rage at the time. As the Chile Solidarity Committee was desperate to collect money to send to Chile to support a soup kitchen charity in Calama, Roland and the rest decided to give the method a try.
I can’t remember the details but just about everybody we knew took part and the soup kitchens prospered.
The main photograph was taken at the start of the walk outside 17 Bruce Street, Rowland’s flat for well over a quarter of a century.