Kidlington Guides complete 53-mile Thames hike, arriving in Oxford on August 20, 1961. – Vintage Photograph

On August 13, three Kidlington Girl Guides, Ann Keegan (14), Christine Weller (13) and Pauline Blake (14), began a 53-mile trek along the Thames, accompanied by their leader Mrs. Eileen Perrin (66). The group walked from the Thames’s source, three miles south-west of Cirencester, to Oxford, camping out in two tents and cooking their meals over a primus stove. After six days of hiking, the group arrived in Oxford on August 20, proud to have achieved their goal of walking the entire length of the Thames.On August 13, three Kidlington Girl Guides, Ann Keegan (14), Christine Weller (13) and Pauline Blake (14), began a 53-mile trek along the Thames, accompanied by their leader Mrs. Eileen Perrin (66). The group walked from the Thames’s source, three miles south-west of Cirencester, to Oxford, camping out in two tents and cooking their meals over a primus stove. After six days of hiking, the group arrived in Oxford on August 20, proud to have achieved their goal of walking the entire length of the Thames.

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Guide Ann Keegan walk stag 53-mile Thames hike by Kidlington Guides THREE Kidlington Guides and their leader who started walking beside the Thames at its source, three miles south-west of Cirencester, on August 13 arrived in Oxford on Fr day. tr The walkers who were led footpaths and they had by Mrs. Eileen Perrin, of 66 bypass brambles, vicious dogi Bicester Road, Kidlington, are and mud. all members of the Second Kidlington Girl Guides. The three girls, patrol leaders of the company, are Ann Keegan, 14 years old, of 7 Ben Close, Christine Weller, aged 13, of 43 Oxford Road, and Pauline Blake, aged 14, of 86 Hamp- den Drive, Kidlington. started at Head the previous and followed the river 53 miles of fields, bogs and barbed wire. They The first day, before reached Cricklade, toughest; there was were HO Two tents by the riverside in their two At night the girls campec tents, and cooked their meal over a primus stove. 0 As Christine said: “We mad All four are keen walkers this trip simply as a challenge to ourselves. “The girls were Thames proud that the fears Sunday their parents and friends tha through they would not last the trip bushes, have been proved groundless Next year they would like they to complete their journey the along the Thames by walking few from Oxford to London. 1961 201 92 296 97 9 Ann Keegan, Pauline Blake, Christine Webber and (seated) their leader, Mrs. Eileen Perrin pictured at the end of their 53-mile six-day tramp from the source of the Thames. un