Small World/Big Coincidence
Roy Gunnett expresses his surprise and delight:
As you might well know I work for a few hours each week in the Oxfam shop in Formby doing valuations on stuff that has been donated – such as watches and clocks, cameras, old coins, stamp albums, old toys and old photographs.
To my surprise I noticed that someone had donated a photograph of a group of policeman at Hendon Police Training college in 1971. On the far right (as you look at it) of the picture in a track suit is Charlie Fogg. What are the chances of that? It would be a big coincidence if it was in a London based charity shop – but for it to have landed up here in Formby I find astonishing. Unfortunately I do not know who donated it as it was in a bag of other stuff.
I shall always be grateful to Charlie for the fact that he allowed me and 2 other Enfield Walking Club members (Peter Worth and Trevor Parslow-Williams) in the early /mid 1970’s to use on a regular basis on Monday evenings the full range of splendid training facilities at the Hendon Police training centre.
I was saddened to hear about the death of Charlie a few years ago – a great character and the ‘iron man’ of UK race walking.
See the full article above at Tim’s Archives at the Victorian Race Walking website
This portrait appeared in October 1963 Race Walking Record
Lancashire Walking Club : Health The First Wealth 
Without Charlie, Marion would not have achieved the high standards that she did. She met Charlie at an International meeting when he asked if she had a coach, to which she replied that she was only advised by Ken Munro but did her own thing in training. Marion agreed on one condition: that he also coached me. Over the next few years, he had vastly improved both of us beyond recognition and we will always be grateful to him for the work he put in. In fact, until he passed away, he always kept a photo of Marion in full action on his desk and regarded her as his greatest achievement in coaching. I still have Charlie’s truncheon which he gave to us as a reminder of what could happen to us if we didn’t follow his training schedules!!!!
I remember Charlie racing in the Plymouth to Dawlish, and his attendant having a big bucket of ice in the boot of his car! Iron man indeed!