CTC Gazette, Vol 1919, No 10
Articles in this issue
- The Manchester DA editor maintains submission guidelines for the supplement and again notes that advertising income is insufficient to cover printing costs.
- Updated record of member subscriptions and donations supporting the Manchester Supplement's finances for 1919.
- The Manchester DA lending library of touring and road books remains open to members at the Wheelers Clubhouse, with catalogue available from the honorary librarian.
- The Manchester DA Committee plans a series of winter social events including whist drives, lectures, and concerts, and appeals for members to volunteer help with lectures or musical programmes.
- Twenty-seven riders set out from Cheadle Green on 6 September for the Manchester DA's annual Century Run, re-routed around a Peace Pageant at Wilmslow via Holmes Chapel and Lower Peover; sixteen finishers completed the full course, including the run's first-ever lady centurion.
- Reports on the Lower Withington run (16 August), the Paper Chase (23 August) hunting hares Boardman and Ginger's confetti trail to Foden's, and the Winwick run (30 August), where the Swan Hotel refused to serve the party tea.
- Minutes of the 3 September Manchester DA committee meeting record August runs attendances, a rebuff from the Metropolitan D.A. on the scheme to devolve the Club into smaller associations, and a decision to complain to the Swan Hotel, Winwick, for refusing to serve tea, followed by the October-November runs programme.
- Notes report M.P. Howard-Gritten's House of Commons question pressing the Board of Trade over high railway charges for carrying cycles, the Club's nomination of members to the new Roads Advisory Committee, and a rebuttal of a "noxious press campaign" against cyclists following the repeal of wartime lighting regulations.
- Notes on lighting-up times are followed by pieces on the history of church pews, old Roman roads through Essex, the Baring-Gould country around Hindhead, and the Gower Peninsula, plus a reader's query about Loch Tay.
- A route around Southend describes Hadleigh Castle, Priory Park, the supposedly Anne Boleyn-haunted Rochford Hall, and objectives including Ashingdon and Canewdon churches, the site of the battle of Assandune.
- "E.R.B." describes touring from Langdale's Middle Fell Farm over the Gate Scarth Pass to Haweswater, and along Ullswater's southern shore via Howtown and Sandwick, recommending it over walking routes like the Stake Pass.
- A description of the Scilly Isles' history and attractions, from the ruined abbey and sub-tropical gardens at Tresco to the Bishop Rock lighthouse, noting the islands are best explored on foot rather than by bicycle.
- "No. 2562" describes a solo cycling tour from Hinckley through Shrewsbury and Llanfyllin to Lake Vyrnwy, sleeping rough near Bwlch-y-Groes after being turned away from the hotel, before continuing via Llanymawddwy and Dinas back through Welshpool and Lichfield to Leicester.
- The Chief Consul for Monmouthshire surveys the county's castles at Raglan, Chepstow, Newport and Monmouth, recommends the Black Mountains and Forest of Dean for an autumn holiday, and notes wartime shipyard works have disrupted Chepstow's accommodation.
- "Tom Cobley" recounts an overnight 240-mile motorcycle ride on "Penelope" from London via Stratford-on-Avon and Bridgnorth to Shrewsbury and into Wales, sleeping rough in a field after the machine broke down near Ironbridge.
- Correspondents debate the threatened reintroduction of compulsory rear-lights, Unito Rigid Couplings for tandem conversions, three-speed gears, and roadside tree- and hedge-cutting at dangerous junctions, plus a renewed appeal for the proposed war memorial fund.
- A young member near Southampton seeks a companion for evening and weekend pleasure cycling.
- Notice that nominations for the 1920 Council elections must reach Headquarters by 15 October, with the schedule of Councillors required for each of the twenty divisions across England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and abroad.
- The full list of Chief Consuls returned unopposed for 1920 across England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and abroad, with several divisions, including Sussex, Staffordshire and Armagh and Tyrone, left vacant.
- Notice and agenda for the Half-Yearly General Meeting at Anderton's Hotel on 10 October 1919, including the Manchester DA's motion to fix the subscription rate in the Articles of Association and a motion congratulating the Club on the withdrawal of the rear-light regulations.
- A chronicle of District Association news for September 1919, covering committee and runs reports from Birmingham and Midland, Bristol and Gloucestershire, Glasgow, Leicestershire and Rutland, Liverpool, Lothians and Peebles, Manchester and the Metropolitan Association, including the Metropolitan's Burnham Beeches Annual Meet and a growing war memorial fund.
- Roll of new full, family and juvenile-membership candidates proposed for October 1919, listed by county from Bedfordshire to Sussex, with a supplementary list of life-membership candidates.