Seventy Five Years of Peace in Europe. After 75 years of peace in Europe, who could have believed the UK for reasons justified or otherwise, would pick a quarrel with our European friends across the channel on something that has … Read More
A Cyclists Haven. It stands hard by a main highway, where the fast noisy traffic disturbs the peace of the village and leaves a reek in the air. Alongside a river of slower moving bicycles and kindred things, countless … Read More
The page below appeared in the first edition of the Cyclists Touring Club Gazette of January 1940. Central to it was the poignant message of hope from a young man preparing to enter a war from which he had … Read More
‘Cycling’ magazine columnists. Peter Knottley and Rex Coley aka ‘Ragged Staff’ were regular columnists in the magazine ‘Cycling’. Rex had a wealth of humorous anecdotes to tell. And like Rex, Peter for his part had a vast knowledge of … Read More
Your editor Roy Spilsbury shuffles forward…… Around thirteen years ago in 2006, an Alan Johnson presented us with photocopies of this 19th century sketchbook diary , Alan, retired and living in Spain had had the copies in his possession since … Read More
Acknowledgement of source – Mari Jones, Daily Post A WW2 cycling memory from Easter 1941. Wartime Grimsby evacuee placed in Penmaenmawr feels homesick. Two 12 year old friends with their panniers filled with nothing but sweets, cycle 200 miles during … Read More
Nant Ffrancon Pass – August 1898 Around mid-day on Thursday, 18th August 1898, a cyclist who was not known locally started to descend the Nant Ffrancon Pass from Llyn Ogwen to Bethesda. A Llandegai farmer, who had two passengers in … Read More
Article in the ‘Cycling’ magazine published 1972. If credit must be given to any one person for the cycling boom which followed the 1914-18 war it surely should be to the late Walter MacGregor Robinson, better known as “Wayfarer”, and … Read More
AUTHOR:- David Ackerley, CyclingUK, Chester&North Wales. In this age of more or less instant contact with anywhere in the world where a Sat phone can go, it is difficult to imagine what communications were like two hundred years … Read More
The Anfield Bicycle Club was founded in 1879. It is one of the oldest surviving cycling clubs in the world. With a £16,000 grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund it has undertaken the mammoth task of digitalizing all its … Read More