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Pickwick Bicycle Club Magazine. Volume 9 No.2 July 2012
From the Archives 33
A very rare club handbook is in the possession of our colleague Welps who has kindly offered to
share the contents through scanned images for the magazine.
Dated 1885, it was the property of Mr Sergeant Snubbin (aka J.M.Raybourne) who meticulously
kept the contents up to date for the next three years, to 1888, altering and adding rules, addresses
and new members’ names and sobriquets. Included there are the names of the Gold and Silver
medal awards of which a silver went to Mr. Raybourne in 1883 for his 180¼ miles in 24hrs – but
on what machine?
Measuring just 7cm x 10 cm (2¾inx
4in) the tiny handbook s cover is a
faded yellow with inner pages in
age-faded white. The pages are all
gilt edged.
