I would like to register with you my Walk details.
My card reads
Mr T Bannister, crossing 24 February 1968, time 17 Hrs 20 mins, west to east, issued by The Chief Dirger Potto Hill, Swainby, Northallerton.
“Condolences on your crossing”
…..are offered on the card!
PS I am now 76 yrs of age and have hung up my long distance walking boots! However I can still remember my walk. 6 of us started out, only 4 finished and there was snow up on Fylingdales, by the RAF station.
I had to carry a companion for the last half mile or so because he’d collapsed. I knew that if I didn’t make the last bit then both of us would probably have perished in the dark, so I was assuredly motivated!
No mobile phones nor nanny rescuers around then!
Cheers
Tony Bannister
Hi Tony
I think the New Lyke Wake Club are trying to get details of as many people who crossed the LWW in days of yore because a lot of the old records have been lost. I think they would be very interested to have the names of your companions with a note of which ones were successful. I first crossed in 1971 (4 times that year!). I stopped dirging when I got married in 1981 & have after a 30-odd year lapse started again in 2014 ( http://lykewake.org/reports/?p=205#comments ) – that relapse has led to me doing 19 crossings in the last 3 yrs! (Daft or what?). A friend of mine crossed on his 70th birthday in 2015! and in that year Bill Dell one of the original dirgers from 1955 did the LWWalk twice (at least 75 years young at the time!).