Eye - 24 October 2014

From zip sliding to unearthing history

by Eye 24th October 2014

Zip-a-dee-do-dah

Suspended by a harness, wind buffeting her face… September saw octogenarian Kitty Grove-Stephensen swooping across the sky on a zip line, dentures stashed securely in a handy pocket.

In 2012 Kitty, a Friend from Middlesbrough Meeting, did a zip slide off the roof of the former Baltic Exchange building in Newcastle to land across the River Tyne (see ‘Eye’ – 16 March 2012).

‘That was two years ago and during that time there has been no let-up in the questioning as to when I would do another adventure,’ she writes.