15 staff members from the Berni Inn in Abingdon take part in a charity fun run to raise funds for the British Heart Foundation. – Vintage Photograph

A group of 15 staff members from the Berni Inn in Abingdon, England, took part in a charity fun run on Saturday, November 14. The bar and restaurant workers donned T-shirts, shorts and running shoes to set off on a five-mile course alongside the River Thames to Culham and back, with the aim of raising funds for the British Heart Foundation. After completing the course, the group is estimated to have raised around 800 for the charity.A group of 15 staff members from the Berni Inn in Abingdon, England, took part in a charity fun run on Saturday, November 14. The bar and restaurant workers donned T-shirts, shorts and running shoes to set off on a five-mile course alongside the River Thames to Culham and back, with the aim of raising funds for the British Heart Foundation. After completing the course, the group is estimated to have raised around 800 for the charity.

Dimensions: 17.8 x 24.1 cm

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BERNI BERNIL ERNI BERN PERNI BERNI

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33185 Staff at the Crown and Thistle hotel in Abingdon were wearing a more unusual kind of uniform on Saturday. For some 15 bar and restaurant workers from the town’s Berni Inn donned T-shirts, shorts and running 48% shoes to set off on a charity fun run. The group, pictured here ready for the off, hope to have raised around 800 for the British Heart Foundation from their successful completion of a five-mile course alongside the River Thames to Culham and back.