Vol 5, No 2
Articles in this issue
- Meetings of 9th and 23rd January elect James Herbert Scrutton, Arthur Morley and Arthur Lloyd to the Club, accept several resignations including H. V. Cleaver's with regret, and decide to hold a Promenade Concert and a further Smoking Concert before the end of February.
- A one-line announcement that after 14th February the Captain, T. E. Scrutton, will be at “Copsefield,” Buckhurst Hill, N.E.
- Report of the meeting of 30th January at the “London Tavern,” Fenchurch Street, with 58 members present and T. E. Scrutton in the chair: each member is asked for five shillings towards the deficit, an advertisement sheet with the Gazette is approved, the fortnightly-Gazette proposal is lost in favour of Clifton's amendment empowering the Committee to appoint an Editor and cut the paper to four pages, and Hon. Ion Keith-Falconer, Scrutton, R. B. Hough and E. S. Price are elected to office.
- R. B. Hough asks members to remit the five-shilling levy voted at the General Meeting, together with any unpaid subscriptions, to 151, Amhurst Road, Hackney, cheques crossed “London and County Bank.”
- Hon. Sec. Fred. W. Morris reports that the Society offered on 18th January to give a performance for the benefit of the Club funds, but that the L.B.C. Committee did not see its way to accept.
- Announcement of the last Smoking Concert of the winter, on Monday 20th February at the “London Tavern” (late “King's Head”), Fenchurch Street, with songs, glees, instrumental music and a farce; tickets a shilling from the Captain, Secretary or the sub-committee of R. M. Gruggen, F. Jolly and W. J. Williams.
- A Promenade Concert in aid of the Club funds is fixed for Wednesday 15th March at St. Andrew's Hall, Newman Street, admission 2s. 6d.; the hall holds about 1,000 and was chosen in preference to St. George's Hall, tickets from F. M. Williams of Bromley.
- L'Homme Qui Rit prints the Brighton contingent's 1881 mileages…H. R. Reynolds 8,605, O'Reilly 3,714, Alexander Crichton 2,895 and L. B. Reynolds 2,153, totalling 17,367…and commends St. Andrew's Hall, visited by royalty at the Amateur Orchestral Society's concerts, as better suited to the Club than its older rival.
- The Club's accounts for 1881, examined by auditors Alfred Henry and H. G. A. Brown, balancing at £344 5s. 3d.: 216 subscriptions at a guinea against the Annual and Evening Races, Bath medals, rent of 108 Fenchurch Street, and £156 net for the Gazette.
- N.E. District, 21st January: a solitary rider takes his 54-inch “lifeboat” down the Lea Bridge Road in nautical language, towing through new-laid flints past Syborn's Corner, and stops near Walthamstow to watch L.B.C. men…including the ex-Secretary and the N.W. basso…playing the unfamiliar game of “Laycross.”
- For sale: a 58-in. hollow-forked “Norwood” by William Keen at £13 10s. and a 58-in. “Stassen” at £6, both through Ernest H. Barrett of Forest Gate, and McCullum Hill's nickel-plated 53-in. “Special Club,” little used since the 1880 Bath Race, at £12 against £25 cost.
- Continuing from Gloucester, the two riders follow the Severn through Newnham and Lydney to Chepstow, put up at the “Beaufort,” then take the Wye valley by St. Arvans to Tintern Abbey, Llandogo and Monmouth, and on through Whitchurch and Ross…where too much lime-juice cordial forces a “three-mile” system of rests…to Hereford's cathedral and westward to Kington.
- McCullum Hill describes a week's fishing at the “White Hart,” Sedbergh, and the fells above it…Winder, Knott, The Crook of Lune, Arran Haw and the 2,220-foot Calf…then the descent to Black Force, whose sloping silurian ledges form a natural trap littered with the bones of sheep, and the long fall of Cautley Spout below Cautley Crag.
- Unable to raise a Continental party, the writer leaves Highbury on 5th September with fourteen pounds of luggage and meets Hindley…riding a “Devon” tricycle one-handed with a sprained wrist…at Barnet fair, running by St. Albans, Dunstable and Woburn Park to Bedford, then training to Derby and riding on through the mud to Ashbourne and the “Green Man.”
- Covers for binding Vol. IV., with Index and Preface, are ready, and old bound numbers may be lettered in gold on the back at the office for ninepence a volume.
- Standing notice that contributions must go to the Editor at 35, Eastcheap, E.C., bear the author's name, be written on one side of the paper only and reach him by Tuesday evening; Messrs. Darling's 2s. badge-stamped portfolios and covers for Vol. III. are also advertised.