Calendars - Part 84

Leek Calendar Boys 2025

Today we look at a calendar produced by a group of friends in Leek, England to raise money to fight prostate cancer.

The group of 20 men got the idea while sitting in the Blue Mugge pub.

They were chatting over a pint about fundraising after most of them had experience with cancer or knew somebody who had.

Nigel Maycock (Mr. October) said "It's a group effort, yeah, but it stemmed from something we were talking about in the pub."

Above, Pete Lymer, the town butcher, shows off his sausage.

Said Maycock, "We were on about the calendar girls, raising money, and a lot of us have experienced something to do with cancer."

Is that a cock pheasant?

Maycock continued, "And then before you know it, it goes from a couple of pints of 'shall we do it, shouldn't we do it.  Well let's do it.'  And that was it."

Mr. June, Paul Harrison, is the pub landlord.  He holds the mug after which the Blue Mugge pub is named.

A little night music?

Hold on to your hats.

Mr. September, Wayne Thomas, poses at his place of business, the Mill Street Kitchen.

At right, Nigel Maycock and others pose on the stone lion in the center of town.

We end with Andrew Cordon posing with his pet ferrets.