Walking Tall for Shap Pool

A PENSIONER strutted his stuff through Shap village on Bank Holliday Monday to raise money for the Swimming Pool.

Seventy-one-year-old John Lowis put on a pair of 32 inch stilts for a high rise hostelery hike between the Bulls Head and Greyhound public houses. At the end of the walk, he had a well earned drink.

"I have got a lot of pleasure out of the swimming pool over the years" he said. "I certainly appreciate the swimming pool committee and the pool is a great thing for the village but it is difficult for them to raise money to keep it going.

The athletic pensioner, who first learned to walk on stilts as a child, was accompanied on his journey by a group of collectors with buckets in which they collected almost £200 together with sponsorship the total came to £461.42.