The Good Old Days

I recently came across some old CDs which held photographs of the early days of the Derby Ranger Group. What happy times they were.
Here is a selection.

The little boy at the front was sponsored to the tune of about £1000 for the charity, his father being the manager of a supermarket.

Alan Locke is amused by the signing at the Bennerley Viaduct.
It says "Great Northern Railway Path".

Mavis, Peter, Martin and Alan riding on the newly surfaced Riverside Path to Elvaston.  Note Alan's same shirt as above.  He now has more than one shirt, we believe.

At Buckingham Palace.  The highlight of the year was our trips to London by train.
These were organised by Peter Ford and much appreciated by the rest of us, who had not travelled by train for years.  What a revelation it was.

At the Cutty Sark.

Alan, Mavis and Phil struggling through the mud whilst surveying what was later to become the Breadsall Greenway.