The Dorking Pub Race

Everyone I mention this to doesn't remember it at all. When I was a kid I remember a pub race - even roads were closed for this event!

Basically each pub had a team which consisted of a person in a wheelbarrow and another person pushing.

The team had to visit each pub in Dorking and down a half pint then continue onto the next. The race started down at the car park which used to exist where the old TSB bank used to be (opposite Hairs and Graces hairdressers now). Anyway it was bizarre and looked like torture, the guys pushing looked knackered and the ones in the wheelbarrow were constantly throwing up over the side of the barrows throughout the race. Strange but true!