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Home > Alternative Sport > The Great Spitalfields Pancake Race

The Great Spitalfields Pancake Race

By Caroline King - March 4, 2011Posted in : Alternative Sport

When: 8th March 2011 at 12.30pm

Where: Dray Walk, Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, E1

What is it?

Why not enter a team in this year’s pancake race and help raise some money for the London Air Ambulance?  Teams should either bring a donation on the day or get sponsored.  There is a prize of an engraved frying pan for the winners!  Pancakes will be provided, so grab your frying pan and get running.

More info: Alternative Arts

Tagged With: London, Pancake Day, Pancake race, Spitalfields

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