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Pickwick Bicycle Club Magazine. Volume 9 No.2 July 2012
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                                                          More sample pages
                                                            from 1885/1888

                                                       In the next issue we will see how
                                                       the  Club  Challenge  Cup  was
                                                       won  each  year  from  1878  to
                                                       1888,  together  with  the  listed
                                                       conditions for the event.

                                                       Also Rules pertaining to the Gold
                                                       Medal. The winners in 1885, ‘87
                                                       and  ’88.  Silver  Medal  winners
                                                       from 1883 to 1888 with a hand-
























                                   written note about the awards for the 24hrs. Event.

                                   There  are  pages  of  ‘Recommendations  in  Reference  to
                                   Road Riding’ and a complete list of members with their
                                   sobriquets.

                                   A  newspaper  cutting,  reporting  the  addition  of  a  new
                                   member, namely Charles Dickens’ son Charles, is attached
                                   to the list page.

                                   This is a truly remarkable archive and comments on its
                                   contents will be very welcome for the Letters Page.
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