On 22nd September, we were joined by our friends from The Accrington and District Blind Society and the Rotary Club of Preston Guild for our second abseil adventure this year.

Once again we were blessed with dry, though somewhat windy, weather and a total of 36 brave souls made the 120 feet descent of Peel Tower near Ramsbottom.

A very murky start

The Galloway's Six

The all important briefing

Halfway up the internal staircase

St George descends in style

St George descends in style

Only 5 foot to go now

David begins his descent, swaying gently

The bigger picture

Mission accomplished, Phil and Steve (now back in the 21st century) with a now visible Peel Tower in the background

Congratulations to everyone who took part and many thanks to the organisers April and Dave who were most reassuring and gave all the encouragement needed by the nervous ones amongst us.

For 2008, we are hoping to organise and evening event, which might just be followed by a visit to a local hostelry, so if you are interested, please let us know as soon as possible.

Steve Lenehan from Penwortham, the plucky first one down

Steve fixes Dave Waring's Helmet

Is it St George? - No it's Steve Raynor from Morecambe

Steve Cross from Chorley encourages Maria Pikulski from Leyland

Done It - Phil Elwell from Bamber Bridge

The relief shows on Dave Waring's face

Jill Dixon with Nicola and John Elgin all from the Broughton Eye Clinic Trust

Martin Henfield captures the moment

Pauline Denver

Sarah Hunt

Darren Jenkinson from Prestom FM

Yvonne Dickinson

Linda Williams

Councillor James Hull

Stuart Turner

Susan Saddoo and Julie Tabner

Naomi Watson from Chorley Building Society

Rebecca Parker

Lee Hunt

Dan Hill from CBS nearly wearing a helmet

Brian Knuckley

David McManus

Daniel Foster

Just to prove he could do it too!