CTC Gazette, Vol 1914, No 12
Articles in this issue
- The editorial urges members to renew subscriptions promptly despite many being away on war service, calls on remaining members to help recruit new members for the Club, and notes that Vol. I of the British Road Book (Southern Counties) is again available at 5s. per copy; it also opens a Roll of Honour for members on Naval or Military Service, naming Council members Lt.-Col. C. H. L. Baskerville, Lieut. W. N. Blakeley and W. G. Quigley, plus Preston secretary H. Steen.
- Announces that two C.T.C. Companies of sixty men each have been formed within Major F. Johnson's 6th (Reserve Cyclist) Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, with about 100 vacancies still open for Foreign Service and pay/allowance details for recruits; also advertises Bartholomew's war maps of Central Europe and a new large-scale map of North-Eastern France, Belgium and the Rhine for following the war's progress.
- By 'The Wanderer': ranges from the Rev. William Jones of Nayland (composer of the hymn tune 'St. Stephen's') and anecdotes of Handel's contempt for clergyman-musicians, to Great Yarmouth's herring-based nickname via David Copperfield, the Gunpowder Plotters' associations with Bourne, Lincolnshire, and a comic gendarme song by Harold Simpson.
- A review of W. F. Rawnsley's 'Highways and Byways in Lincolnshire,' highlighting the Norman manor house at Boothby Pagnell, the sanctus bell at Tallington and photographs of Torksey and Tattershall Castle; also lists three forthcoming book notices (including Frank Bowden's 'Cycling for Health and Points for Cyclists') and records the death, aged 49, of veteran cycling writer Haydon Perry.
- Reports that the Court of Appeal, under Lords Justices Buckley, Phillimore and Pickford, ordered a new trial in Miss Papworth's claim against Battersea Borough Council over a defective sewer-gully in Lombard Road that threw her from her bicycle in January 1913, having originally been awarded £1,961 damages.
- Gives December lighting-up times and moon phases for London and other cities, then a series of short notes: on the 'Cyclists' A.B.C. of English Architecture' serial and recommended architecture primers, on wartime interest in geography prompted by the fighting near Ypres, the Vosges and Mons, on the Boy Scout movement's map-reading skills, and further correspondence on the Gunpowder Plotters' White Webb's House in Enfield.
- Traces the history of Mont St. Michel in Normandy from St. Aubert's original chapel of AD 708 through Richard-sans-peur's Benedictine foundation of 966 to the Merveille building complex begun in 1203, and draws a detailed architectural comparison with England's own St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall; illustrated by A. R. Quinton.
- By Edwin Brookes: describes Filey, Yorkshire, including the Brigg rock ridge and its Ice Age boulder clay, the supposed Roman pier remains known as the 'Spittals,' the Parish Church of St Oswald, the 1799 epitaph of drowned fisherman Richard Richardson, and the earthworks at Camp Dale and the deserted village of Argam.
- By T. W. E. Higgens: a July 1914 touring narrative from Didcot through East Hendred, Wantage, Farringdon, Lechlade and Cirencester, over the Cotswolds to Cheltenham, Ludlow, Ledbury, Leominster and Church Stretton to Shrewsbury, then via Wrexham to Chester and on by train to Llandudno, covering 177 miles.
- By F. K. Prescott, C.T.C. Consul for Leigh, continuing his account: describes the Precipice Walk above Dolgelly, the Nannau Lodge legend of Owen Glyndwr and Howel Sele, a visit to Barmouth and Harlech Castle, and the ascent of Snowdon by Sir Edward Watkin's path to the Gladstone memorial rock.
- Continuing the serial: covers the evolution of English domestic architecture from the Manor-house to the quadrangular Court of the 14th century, hall and chamber arrangements through the 15th and 16th centuries, and a separate section on Celtic architecture in Ireland, including raths, cathairs and stone circles.
- By Alan B. Anderson: a route from Folkestone via Cheriton Old Church and Shorncliffe Camp, Monks Horton Priory, Court-at-Street and Lyminge (linked to Elizabeth Barton, the 'Holy Maid of Kent'), to the Roman station at Lympne and Stutfall Castle, returning via Hythe and Sandgate Castle.
- By H. R. Reynolds: an October run of eight members from the Windmill on Wimbledon Common via Raynes Park, Ewell and Epsom to Headley, Mickleham and Leatherhead on a tandem fitted with a B.S.A. auto-wheel, visiting St Michael's Church, Mickleham and St Nicholas's Church, Leatherhead, and noting Universities and Public Schools Battalion recruits drilling at Headley.
- Letters include A. W. Baldwin's detailed critique of Saxon-architecture claims made in the 'Cyclist's A.B.C. of English Architecture' serial, a 65-year-old member's account of taking up cycling in middle age and riding to Golder's Green daily, several members debating the reliability of the 'Voltalite' dynamo lamp and bell placement on handlebars, and a note on the newly formed Liverpool National Reserve Cycle Corps.
- Club business including Council vacancies in the Surrey and Eastern Counties divisions, the 1915 Council election results for Lancashire (J. T. Lightwood and R. Holland Owen) and Yorkshire (W. N. Blakeley and H. W. Westlake), a call for a new Chief Consul for Glamorganshire, requests for local Consuls in several counties, and details of the C.T.C.'s insurance schemes and International Travelling Passes for motor-cyclists.
- Reports and fixture lists from the Birmingham and Midland, Bristol and Gloucestershire, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Metropolitan, Nottingham and Derby, Sheffield, and Southampton District Associations, including Birmingham's fourth Annual Dinner at the Woolpack Hotel and a Glasgow committee meeting discussing the Club's Enrolment Scheme with the Town Clerk.