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Thirty years since epic tour!

Thirty years since epic tour!

Webmaster Web Master3 Feb 2015 - 22:58
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Is it really 30 years since one of HRFCs greatest ever expeditionary forces left these shores for Paris?

In 1985 an epic band of men set off from Waverley Station early one morning.

And so began the Haddington 4ths Paris Tour.

Their mission?

To spend the tour fund, rumoured to be £7000 (about £5m in today's money.)

They failed but not before a herculean effort over five days.

The stuff of legend.

Does seem a while ago, but was it really on the black and white days?

C'mon Scotland.

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