Our reunion to celebrate 50 years of pilgrimages is underway. You can follow us in our usual diary at www.thepilgrims.org.uk/2025/reunion50.php
The slides shared at the reunion appear below. Enjoy!
Ecumenical Walking Pilgrimage – 50 Years 
1975 Holy Year Pilgrimage 
1975 Leaving Arundel 
1975 Ash in the rain 
1975 Arundel Park with Bishop Michael 
1976 Pilgrims Way Pilgrimage 
1976 Leaving Arundel 
1976 Lunch at Slindon 
1976 Mass at Winchester Cathedral 
1976 Sleeping outside in Winchester 
1976 An early sing-song 
1976 The St Francis Ramblers 
1976 Crossing the Medway in a pinnace 
1976 Approaching Canterbury Cathedral 
1977 Walsingham Pilgrimage 
1977 Dorking: Terri & Mike in their night attire 
1977 St Mary’s Byfleet 
1977 Snoopy 
1977 Totem Pole, Windsor Great Park 
1977 Cookham Church 
1977 Bill the photographer 
1977 Tring Church Hall 
1977 Ivinghoe Beacon 
1977 At the Greyhound 
1977 The Slipper Chapel, Walsingham 
1978 Glastonbury Pilgrimage 
1978 Leaving Arundel (again) 
1978 Welcomed to Portsmouth Diocese 
1978 Hayling Island Beach 
1978 Ventnor Beach 
1978 AllSaints Parish Hall, Freshwater 
1978 Boarding the ferry at Yarmoputh 
1978 Trespass Warning near Homington 
1978 Bob and the totam pole, Salisbury 
1978 Stonehenge 
1978 Glastonbury Tor 
1978 Draining the blood from the feet… 
… to the head 
1979 Canterbury 2 Pilgrimage 
1979 St John the Baptist, Brighton 
1979 Seven Sisters 
1979 Normans Bay 
1979 Woodman’s Arms 
1979 Mass Canterbury Cathedral crypt 
1979 Canterbury Cathedral 
1979 Chilham – Anne gets the bumps 
1979 Smarden Bell 
1979 Pooh Sticks 
1979 Mike and Eddie with a giant fungus 
1979 Bishop Cormac greets the pilgrims, Arundel Cathedral 
1980 Buckfast Pilgrimage 
1980 Looking for a lost contact lens, Midhurst Convent 
1980 East Meon, Chapel of the Assumption 
1980 St Cross, Winchester 
1980 Rest day in Romsey 
1980 Maggie gets carried out, Fordingbridge 
1980 Anne at the Bull Inn 
1980 Winterbourne Strickland 
1980 Hardy Monument in mist 
1980 Bill eats cockles, West Bay 
1980 Leaving Sidmouth 
1980 Exmouth-Starcross ferry 
1980 Hannah on Dartmoor 
1980 Ten Commandments Stone 
1981 Sussex Pilgrimage 
1981 Brighton, The Steine 
1981 Littlehampton Ferry 
1981 Bishop Cormac leads, Royal Oak, Lagness 
1981 Captain Julian 
1981 St Wilfrids Chichester 
1981 Pulborough 
1981 Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, West Chiltington 
1981 Maggie carried out AGAIN, Haywards Heath 
1981 Tea break at Burgess Hill 
1981 St Anne’s, Lewes 
1981 St Wilfrid, Lower Willingdon, leg exercises 
1981 Michelham Priory – sleeping with bats 
1981 Approaching Rye 
1982 Papal Pilgrimage 
1982 Papal Leaving Arundel once more 
1982 Papal Leith Hill 
1982 Papal Eileen at Wootton Hatch 
1982 Papal John-Paul gets a bath 
1982 Papal building the M25 
1982 Papal Beside the Thames approaching Staines 
1982 Papal Frontmarkers in Staines 
1982 Papal Leaving St Catherine’s West Drayton with our banner 
1982 Papal Flying the flag 
1982 Papal We could just about see Pope John-Paul II, but we were THERE 
1982 Buckfast Centenary Pilgrimage 
1982 St Mary’s, Midhurst 
1982 Warsash Jetty 
1982 Stopped for a rest 
1982 Thirny Hill drink stop 
1982 Sandbanks Ferry 
1982 Studland, the barn 
1982 Lulworth Gunnery School 
1982 Durdle Door 
1982 Hardy Monument 
1982 Kings Arms, Bob and Mike 
1982 Branscombe Mouth 
1982 Descending from Hay Tor 
1982 Buckfast Abbey 
1983 Evesham Pilgrimage 
1983 Train, Blenheim Park 
1983 Taking a ride, Blenheim Park 
1983 Aidan’s too tall 
1983 Broadway Tower 
1983 Evesham 
1983 Evesham 
1983 Evesham 
1984 Lindisfarne Pilgrimage 
1984 Crossing the Moors 
1984 St John’s, Healey 
1984 
1984 Bill’s Boozer 
1984 Simonside Hills 
1984 Simonside Hills 
1984 Approaching the causeway 
1984 Crossing the sands to Lindsifarne 
1984 St Aidan’s Statue 
1984 Durham Cathedral, the great door knocker 
1985 Birthday Pilgrimage 
1985 First day drink stops 
1985 Music group at Storrington 
1985 Fitness class 
1985 Cranleigh 
1985 More fitness, St Dunstan’s Woking 
1985 Ferry across teh Thames near Thames Ditton 
1985 Tom & Jackie 
1985 Dancing 
1985 Water fight 
1985 Seafront 
1985 Jo and Jane 
1985 Mo 
1985 Pat and Mo leave the boat 
1986 Wessex Walk 
1986 Aidan and Louise frontmarking, Brighton seafront 
1986 Hove seafront 
1986 Through the corn near Fulking 
1986 Frances shops for veg, Bradford on Avon 
1986 Julian leads the pilgrim train, Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway 
1986 Sister Margaret leads the buskers, Bath 
1986 family leisure in Bath 
1987 2nd Walsingham Pilgrimage 
1987 Leaving Arundel 
1987 The Roxwell Flood 
1987 Pilgrim games 
1987 Sarnie Bashing 
1987 Celebrations 
1988 3rd Canterbury Pilgrimage 
1988 Leaving Arundel 
1988 Clare and the video camera 
1988 Aftermath of 1987 hurricane 
1988 Baggage chain at Worthing 
1988 Beeding Hill 
1988 A future leader at the Tiger Inn 
1988 Birling Gap Cafe 
1988 Keith cleans his boots, Eastbourne 
1988 Front Markers at St Nicholas, Pevensey 
1988 Bodiam Castle 
1988 Welcomed to Kent (and Southwark Diocese) by Fr Peter Madden 
1988 A new generation joins the pilgrimafe 
1988 Westgate Gardens, entering Canterbury 
1988 Processing down Canterbury High Street 
1989 St Richard’s Pilgrimage 
1989 Pilgrims rest at the roadside 
1989 St Nicholas’ Church, Alcester 
1989 Our Lady & St Michael, Shipston-upon-Stour 
1989 At The Lion, Little Compton 
1989 Tea at Begbroke 
1989 Swans at Sandford Lock 
1989 The McCabe family 
1989 Leaving the Portsmouth Pilgrims 
1898 Ropley Rest Day activities 
1989 Butser Hill 
1989 Sheila rests at Hooksway 
1989 Entering Chichester 
1989 Reviving a tradition, Chichester Cathedral 
1990 St Richard 2 Pilgrimage 
1990 Monica manages registration single-handedly in Chichester 
1990 The Sharp family at Chichester 
1990 John Lamb at the Lamb Inn 
1990 Littlehampton 
1990 Maurice greets Sister Margaret, Crossbush 
1990 Queue to enter the Woodman Arms. Hammerpot 
1990 Highdown Hill 
1990 Rest day in Brighton 
1990 Drinks on the pier 
1990 Butterfly song 
1990 Water fight at Fairlight 
1990 St Richard’s Winchelsea 
1990 Lympne Zoo 
1990 View of Dover 
1990 St Edmund’s Chapel, Dover 
1990 Day trip to Boulogne 
1991 2nd Glastonbury Pilgrimage 
1991 Hovercraft to Ryde 
1991 Family on the move 
1991 Music Planning with Tom 
1991 Fancy footwork 
1991 Across the Wessex downs 
1991 Ascending Glastonbury Tor 
1991 Glastonbury 
1991 Mass at Glastonbury 
1992 St David’s Pilgrimage 
1992 
1992 
1992 
1992 
1992 St David’s Cathedral 
1992 Last night party 
1992 Last night party 
1992 Kitchen Party 
1992 John Cullen RIP 
1993 Norwich Pilgrimage 
1993 Britwell 
1993 Rest Day in Cambridge 
1993 Julian provides drinks and blessings 
1993 
1993 
1993 
1994 Hereford Pilgrimage 
1994 First day rest 
1994 Basingstoke Canal 
1994 St Mary Bourne 
1994 Danny & Family 
1994 Drink stop at Slaughterford 
1994 Crossing the Severn Bridge into Wales 
1994 Tintern Abbey 
1994 Wye Valley 
1994 Hereford 
1994 Hereford Cathedral 
1995 Martyrs Pilgrimage 
1995 Leaving Arundel 
1995 
1995 Above Shere 
1995 
1995 East Horsley Place 
1995 
1995 Twenty Years of Pilgrim Crosses 
1995 
1995 London 
1995 Beachy Head 
1996 Buckfast Pilgrimage 
1996 Sing Song at Sway 
1996 Sandbanks Ferry 
1996 Sandbanks Ferry 
1996 East Lulworth Church 
1996 Lulworth Cove Hotel 
1996 Lulworth Cove Hotel 
1996 Golden Cap 
1996 Dartmoor 
1996 Dartmoor 
1996 Buckfast Abbey 
1997 St Augustine of Canterbury Pilgrimage 
1997 Leaving Chichester 
1997 Lambs at a drink stop 
1997 Arrowing reaches new heights 
1997 Cedric, Danny and Bill 
1997 Near Ham and Sandwich 
1997 Viking boat near Ramsgate 
1997 St Augustine Trail 
1997 Canterbury 
1997 Canterbury Cathedral 
1998 St Michael’s Mount Pilgrimage 
1998 Breakfast on the move 
1998 Bodmin Moor 
1998 On the Saints Way across Cornwall 
1998 Crossing the Gannel 
1998 Near St Agnes 
1998 Approaching St Ives 
1998 St Michael’s Mount 
1998 Crossing the causeway 
1998 Leaving St Michael’s Mount – tide coming in! 
1998 Celebration Meal, Marazion 
1999 St Dunstan’s Pilgrimage to Bath 
1999 Chichester Cathedral 
1999 Emsworth 
1999 Isle of Wight Ferry 
1999 Quarr Abbey 
1999 New Forest 
1999 Pat carried injured Pat 
1999 Bradford-on-Avon 
2000 St Chad Pilgrimage 
2000 Van loading in Guildford 
2000 St Hugh of Lincoln, Knaphill 
2000 John spills his dessert, West End 
2000 Leaving Bracknell 
2000 Fr Joe Henley-on-Thames 
2000 Polish pilgrims meet Polish nun, Fawley Court 
2000 Stonor Arms 
2000 Abbie’s Arrow 
2000 On the Thames approaching Dorchester 
2000 Jam Mound View Point 
2000 Nicola and Pat visit 
2000 Leaving Chadlington 
2000 College Arms, Quinton 
2000 The Navigation Inn at Kingswood 
2000 St Francis Church, Baddesley Clinton 
2000 St Francis Church, Baddesley Clinton 
2000 Bishop Keith of Lichfield 
2000 Lichfield Cathedral 
2002 Lichfield to Lastingham Pilgrimage 
2002 St Chad’s Hall, Lichfield 
2002 Topless Twins, Lichfield 
2002 River Blithe 
2002 River Blithe 
2002 Croxton Abbey 
2002 Alton, Staffs 
2002 Alton Castle 
2002 Derbyshire Warning 
2002 You were warned 
2002 Bakewell, Lady Manners School 
2002 Devonshire Arms, Baslow 
2002 Fr Joe on Curbar Edge 
2002 Lourdes on Curbar Edge 
2002 Steve doe teh website, All Saints School Sheffield 
2002 Sing Song, All Saints School, Sheffield 
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2002 Elsecar 
2002 The Mill of the Black Monks 
2002 
2002 Tea! 
2002 
2002 Bishops Palace 
2002 Waiting for the bus into York 
2002 York Minster 
2002 Carrying the relic 
2002 Celebration Cake 
2003 St Richard Anniversary Pilgrimage 
2003 Heading west from Dover 
2003 Mass at Newchurch 
2003 Young visitors 
2003 Entering Chichester 
2004 Gloucester-Chester Pilgrimage 
2004 Setting Out Prayers, Gloucester 
2004 Little Malvern Priory 
2004 Camino Reunion, St John’s Church, Pencombe 
2004 Jonny ensures we don’t get lost, Shrewsbury 
2004 Resting in Shrewsbury 
2004 Welsh Borders 
2005 Streets of Canterbury 
2005 Pilgrims review the diary, Rochester 
2005 Prayers around Mike Simons’ grave, Ropley 
2005 Arrow tree, Itchen Valley 
2005 Winchester Cathedral 
2006 Chester to Lincoln Pilgrimage 
2006 Fr David bestows the crosses 
2006 Appraching Shutlingsloe 
2006 Enter Lincoln Cathedral Close 
2007 Wells to Arundel Pilgrimage 
2007 Leaving Wells Cathedral 
2007 Pat Olivier’s Final Lunchstop 
2007 Wearing the T-shirt 
2007 Arriving at Arundel 
2007 Bishop Kieron inspects a cross 
2008 Evesham to Salisbury Pilgrimage 
2008 Pilgrims must be fed 
2008 Challenging road crossing 
2008 Sneaky afternoon refreshment stop, Horse * Groom, Charlton 
2008 St Mary the Virgin, Bradenstoke 
2008 Salisbury Cathedral 
2009 Lindisfarne Pilgrimage 
2009 Over the moors north of Lastingham 
2009 A rainbow above the moors out of Danby 
2009 St Joseph’s RC Church, Grove Hill (MIddlesborough) 
2009 heading for Dunstanburgh Castle 
2009 Crossing the East Coast Main Line 
2009 Processing on to Holy Island 
2010 St David’s Pilgrimage 
2010 On the Ceredigion Coast Path 
2010 Unexopected lunch at Llanrhystud Church 
2010 St Luke’s, Llanllwni 
2010 Newgale Beach 
2010 Prayers for deceased pilgrimage at St Non’s Chapel outside St David’s 
2011 Newman Pilgrimage 
2011 A grand first hall, Westminster Cathedral 
2011 That’s our destination, early on 1st walking day 
2011 Burton Dassett Hills Country Park 
2011 Canal into Birmingham – in the rain! 
2012 Exeter Pilgrimage 
2012 Washing up in Wedmore 
2012 Glastonbury Tor 
2012 Mud between Awliscombe and Sidford 
2012 Exeter Cathedral 
2013 Walsingham Pilgrimage 
2013 ST Alban’s Cathedral 
2013 3rd Day, still happy 
2013 Ceri and the big spoon 
2013 Van team 
2014 Liverpool – Carlisle Pilgrimage 
2014 Rydal Water 
2014 Descending into Langdale 
2014 Ascending Stake Pass 
2014 – North of Keswick, in the rain 
2015 Festival50 Pilgrimage 
2015 Leaving Arundel 
2015 Arundel High Street 
2015 Procession of Banners 
2015 The Band 
2015 Patrick with Cardinal Cormac 
2015 The Amex Stadium 
2015 Arundel Pilgrimage 
2015 River Wey Navigation 
2015 Leith Hill Viewpoint 
2015 Rest on teh climb to Betchworth 
2015 Big kids 
2015 East Hoathly Church 
2015 Arrows of many colours 
2015 We meet Alan Fox on the Seven Sisters 
2015 Seven Sisters 
2015 More pilgrims with Alan Fox 
2015 Gathering in Arundel 
2015 Processing through Arundel 
2016 Mercy Pilgrimage 
2016 Cross 
2016 Holy Door 
2016 Crossing the South Downs 
2016 Winchester to Canterbury Pilgrimage 
2016 Crosses with lifejackets – for refugees 
2016 Registration in Winchester 
2016 Leaving Alresford 
2016 Leaving Alton 
2016 An ancient pilgrim at Chilham 
2016 Tineke’s Tail 
2016 Rest Day in Horsham 
2016 Pilgrims after the reunion 
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2021 Old Way Pilgrimage 
2021 Southampton Station 
2021 Gathering in Southampton 
2021 Warsash Ferry 
2021 Warsash Ferry 
2021 Approaching Emsworth 
2021 Outskirts of Havant 
2021 Titchfield Abbey 
2021 Up on the South Downs 
2021 Emsworth Baptist Church 
2022 St Thomas Way Pilgrimage 
2022 Hereford Cathedral 
2023 Bristol to Arundel Pilgrimage 
2023 St Michael, Monkton Combe 
2023 Leaving Melksham 
2023 Prayers Caen Hill Locks 
2023 Radio Interview, Honey Street 
2023 Old Winchester Hill 
2023 East Meon 
2023 SS Mary Magdelene & Denys, Midhurst 
2023 Lunch stop near Graffham 
2023 South Downs Way 
2023 Arundel Park – recreating the 1975 photo 
2023 Arundel Park 
2023 Processing to Arundel Catehdral 
2023 Arundel Cathedral 
2024 Heart of England Pilgrimage 
2024 Preparing to leave Worcester, St George’s RC Church 
2024 Henley-in-Arden Memorial Hall 
2024 Named lunches, Henley-in-Arden 
2024 All Saints Church, Preston Bagot 
2024 All Saints Church, Preston Bagot 
2024 St Nicholas Church, Kenilworth 
2024 Coventry Cathedral – after a long day 
2024 Coventry Cathedral 
2024 Lunch at All Saints, Lilbourne 
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2024 The vicar serves tea, Oakham 
2024 Approaching Peterborough Cathedral 
2024 Peterborough 
2024 Peterborough 
2024 Peterborough 
2024 Celebration Meal 
Best wishes on your pilgrimage. Teresa and I walked this pilgrimage for the first time in 2004 and the second time several years later they were precious experiences. We wish you well and will keep you in our prayers.
Love from Canada.
James