CTC Gazette, Vol 1914, No 11
Articles in this issue
- Laments the wartime cancellation of the half-yearly meeting and October Council Meeting, urges members to renew their 1915 subscriptions, and reports the abandonment of the Olympia Cycle and Motor-Cycle Show and the death on active service in Scotland of Surrey Chief Consul Capt. F. W. Highton, R.N. Also relates a war correspondent's account of an English despatch-rider on the River Aisne who was awarded the medaille militaire for cycling through German fire to warn an advancing French column.
- A miscellany collected by "The Wanderer", including notes that German cyclist troops were the first to enter Ghent, that storms had wrecked the new promenade at Withernsea on the Holderness coast, and that A.A. and Motor Union cycle patrols in Essex had volunteered for the 8th (Cyclist) Battalion, Essex Regiment.
- Gives November lighting-up times and moon phases, recommends a boating and fishing holiday at Dorchester-on-Thames near Wallingford, and prints readers' replies on lodgings at Lancing (Sussex), climbing Benbaun in Connemara, joining the Motor Cycle Corps, and a reading list on Greece, plus recommended stops at Alresford, Bournemouth and Wheatley Bridge.
- Subtitled "The Roman City of Isurium"; describes the Roman remains at Aldborough near Harrogate, including a mosaic bath pavement, the 60-acre city walls, the church built from Roman stone, the village Maypole and stocks, and the nearby Devil's Arrows monoliths at Boroughbridge.
- By M. Adeline Cooke; contrasts the modern seaside resort of Great Yarmouth, with its marine parade and Broads steamer trips to Caister Castle and Burgh Castle, against the medieval "Rows", the Tolhouse and the wide church of St. Nicholas in the old fishing town.
- By James L. Wood; visits sites linked to the 1605 Gunpowder Plot conspirators, including Guy Fawkes's birthplace at York, Chastleton and Ashby St Leger connected with Robert Catesby, Rushton Hall and Newton linked to Francis Tresham, and Fawkes's lantern preserved at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
- By F. J. E.; discusses fire risks of thatched roofs following blazes at Edgecote, Swavesey and South Luffenham, contrasts thatch-and-stone cottages of Northamptonshire and the Cotswolds with Collyweston stone slates, and pictures examples at Castor, Upton and Brigstock.
- By S. W. B. Tucker; a cycling tour based at Dedham through Stratford St Mary, East Bergholt, Flatford Mill, Stoke-by-Nayland, Nayland, Mistley, Lawford and Manningtree, visiting scenes associated with the painter John Constable.
- An anonymous member, signing himself "Ar-y-Fforrd", describes being turned down as a War Office despatch rider, volunteering instead as a Special Constable in a coastal danger zone, patrolling dark roads on his bicycle and motor-cycle sidecar, and once challenging a local magistrate he mistook for a suspect.
- Publishes judge Henry Walker's report and the winning prints: first prize to Dr. E. P. McLoughlin of Dublin for "Carcassonne", second to M. O. Dell of Walham Green for "Peasant of the Basses Pyrenees", and third to F. H. Sudds of Ealing for "Gloucester Cathedral", with several commended entries listed.
- By F. K. Prescott, C.T.C. Consul for Leigh; recounts a four-day cycling and walking tour from Prestatyn through Dyserth and its waterfall, the Vale of Clwyd, Ruthin, Corwen and the Dee Valley towards Bala and Dolgelly, to be continued in a later issue.
- Sets out the procedure for the 1915 Annual Election of Councillors, lists nominations and election addresses for contested divisions including Lancashire and Yorkshire, notes Surrey's division left vacant after Rose Lamartine Yates stood down to focus on war relief work, and details the C.T.C.'s cycle, motor-cycle and personal accident insurance schemes.
- A continuing instructional series describing the columns, arches, windows and mouldings of the Perpendicular period, the development of British, Roman, Saxon, Norman and Edwardian castles, and Saxon and Norman domestic house design including the hall, solar and manor-house plan.
- Members' letters cover offering hospitality to Belgian refugees, the merits of light-weight touring cycles such as an Aero-Special Rudge-Whitworth, climbing the Twelve Pins in Connemara, a lengthy exchange on cycle lamps prompted by "Lord De Mauley", pedal ball-bearing mechanics, and a request for knitted comforts for a cycle corps serving at the front.
- Reports from the Birmingham, Bristol and Gloucestershire, Glasgow, Metropolitan, Nottingham and Derby, Sheffield, Southampton and Yorkshire (West Riding) District Associations, dominated by wartime disruption including members enlisting or joining Volunteer Force drill and rifle-shooting, curtailed winter social programmes, and revised run schedules.