Published:
4:45 PM April 6, 2021
George Ginn (far right), a former Soham town councillor, reached one million steps as part of his challenge to raise funds for the Arthur Rank Hospice Charity.
- Credit: Facebook/Soham Town Council
A man who completed one million steps in under 100 days for charity said he is “thrilled to bits” with the support he received to conquer the feat.
George Ginn, 86, decided to take on the challenge where he would walk from his hometown of Soham and Fordham between January 11 to April 20 for the Arthur Rank Hospice Charity.
Having said last month he was “way ahead of schedule”, George reached the million-step mark on Good Friday (April 2) as he walked his usual route.
Lindy was from Landbeach and I met her whilst an undergraduate at Jesus College in Cambridge. Our wedding reception was held in the garden of Lindy’s mother’s house in Landbeach and many of the photographs were taken there.
“The photos were taken by Lettice Ramsey and her company, Ramsey and Muspratt, was quite famous in Cambridge at the time, taking portrait pictures of many of the city’s best-known names. I did some online research and found that Ramsey and Muspratt had donated their negatives to the Cambridgeshire Collection in the 1980s.
“I emailed the council s Libraries service more in hope than expectation to ask whether they still had the negatives.