Starting 1956 Christmas handicap road race

Hadleigh Olympiads Athletic Club

Jim is on the left
Jim Coombs
Ken Lowes sets off with Bill Sutton waiting to follow while Ken's older brother, Fred (back left) is still warming up.
Jim Coombs

Hadleigh Olympiads Athletic Club members assemble for the 1956 Christmas handicap road race.   Notice the advert on the corner shop for the Kingsway Cinema which is across the road.

Runners are sent off one by one for the 1956 Christmas handicap road race.  No surprise, it looks very chilly!

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  • This must be much earlier than 1986. Not only does it look it, but the Kingsway cinema was long gone when I moved to Hadleigh in 1978.
    Ed: quite true, thanks Terry, I must have managed to read 1956 and type 1986! Now corrected. Thanks again.

    By Terry Palmer (26/07/2023)
  • That looks very much like David Evans on the right in the first photo .

    By Rob Keen (25/07/2023)

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