Welsh pony Blue, collie Roly, and their owner Mr Merrick Sheldon plan an eight-month sponsored drive around Britain to raise money for the Guide Dogs for the Blind charity. – Vintage Photograph

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Mr Merrick Sheldon and his two animal companions, Welsh pony Blue and collie Roly, are taking to the road this summer in a sponsored drive around Britain. The drive is to raise money for the Guide Dogs for the Blind charity and will last eight months. Mr Sheldon has been with Blue for the past two years and often calls at the Eight Bells Pub in Eaton, where the landlord has installed a special hitching post for the pony.Mr Merrick Sheldon and his two animal companions, Welsh pony Blue and collie Roly, are taking to the road this summer in a sponsored drive around Britain. The drive is to raise money for the Guide Dogs for the Blind charity and will last eight months. Mr Sheldon has been with Blue for the past two years and often calls at the Eight Bells Pub in Eaton, where the landlord has installed a special hitching post for the pony.

Dimensions: 20 x 20 cm

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14 DEC 1985 4 DEC 1985) On the trot for charity A TRIO of unusual compa- nions will be taking to the road this summer. the past two years. He is well used to pulling his mas- ter around his smallholding near Carmarthen, in South Wales, in a neat fibreglass trap. “We’ve been doing prac- tice runs in the countryside around Oxford in prepara- tion for the real thing,” said Mr Sheldon. Welsh pony Blue, collie Roly, and their owner Mr Merrick Sheldon, pictured above, are planning an eight-month sponsored drive around Britain to raise money for the Guide Dogs for the Blind charity. 59% Twelve-year-old Blue has been with Mr Sheldon for of has Mr Sheldon, 30, Appleton Road, Cumnor, now put the Pem- brokeshire farm up for sale, but says he could not bring himself to part with the pony. They often call at the Eight Bells pub, Eaton, where landlord Mr Derrick Johns has put up a special hitching post for the pony. Blue waits patiently while his master slakes his thirst inside.