Hartland Round-the-Houses Race

There was a ‘meet’ of prams, trucks and trolleys in Hartland Square on Saturday night for the start of an open novelty race, organised by the Hartland branch of the Young Conservatives.

Dressed in the gaudiest of outfits, competitors dashed through the streets and lanes. Five minutes later, the winners were spotted – Mr Colin Ritchie, from RAF Hartland Point, with his pram passenger Miss Valerie Jeffery. Second were Mr N Pomeroy, with Mr Norman Westlake; third were Mr J Downie and Miss J Sanson.

Only ‘accident’ of the occasion involved Miss Joyce Goaman with her passenger Miss Brenda Heard.

Gazette article dated 11 November 1960