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30 Pickwick Bicycle Club Magazine. Volume 9 No.1 March 2012
1878 Hampton Court Meet: Continued.
1. The start will be at five o’clock sharp. Assembly – on the sounding of the assembly
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at 4.45pm, you must fall in sharp and close up to the club in your immediate front, when
you will at once prepare your parade state attached hereto for the marshal, who will ride
past to collect the name. Attention – Attention, or prepare to mount, will be on the occasion
one G, when you must hand the parade state to the marshal appointed, and your men
be prepared to mount in pairs. Advance – Advance will be sounded at 5pm sharp, when
the first two men of the leading club will mount together, those in the rear will gradually
advance on foot so as not to lose distance and mount in succession of pairs, keeping
three yards distance between each pair of riders, and not more than twenty yards between
each club.
2. The route will be past the Lion gates and Hampton Green through Hampton (Church
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Street), to the left (just before reaching Pantile Bridge) towards Hanworth, sharp to the
right, passing Glebe Farm, to the right, crossing main road to Hampton, through South
Road, to the right, through Main Road, Teddington, past the “Clarence Arms”, through
Park Road into Bushy Park and along Chestnut Avenue; the clubs, after circling the Diana
Fountain, and passing through Bushy Park gates, will file off to right or left according to
their destinations. In order to prevent obstruction and confusion, no club can dismount
at the Bushy Park gates, but must proceed either past Hampton Green towards Hampton,
or towards Kingston, to points (about half-a-mile from the Lion gates) marked by red
flags.
3. Certain buglers will be appointed for the day who will be stationed at different parts
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of the line. All orders given at the Lion gates to be repeated by them once only. No other
bugling will be allowed under any circumstances whatever.
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4. Members of clubs out of uniform must fall in with the non-club men, if riding in
procession, as no rider will be allowed to ride with any club unless in uniform. You are
requested to see this order strictly carried out.
5. Captains will be required to wear their club colours on the left arm, just above the
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elbow.
6. With a view of preventing accidents or obstructions, all riders are particularly
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requested to ride machines that can be easily mounted and dismounted, and on no
account to ride about after having once fallen in.
7. The marshals appointed for the day will be advertised in bicycling papers, and will
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take their instructions from Mr H Coppin.
NOTICE TO UNATTACHED RIDERS
Non-clubmen are cordially invited to attend the monster meet at Hampton Court on Saturday, May
18, and in order that they may have a good view of the procession, arrangements have been
made for the use of Hampton Green, kindly placed at the disposal of the committee by Mr Ive,
and on which the riders not in club uniform and non-clubmen will form up in columns, under H E
Sherington, assisted by other marshals. They will then join in at the rear of the procession of clubs,
and go over the route with the clubs.
On the return journey all riders are urgently requested to ride up to the points marked by red flags,
one on the road to Hampton, and the other towards Kingston, both points to be about half a mile
from the Lion gates. They are also requested to muster on the Green as early as possible, and to
note particularly that after 4.30 no riders can go up the ranks to the Green, but must fall in the rear
of the clubs, and thus lose the view. No riders will be allowed to ride from the Green to Kingston
until after the procession is off the ground. It is to be definitely understood that riders cannot pass
through Bushey Park on taking up positions, and those arriving by way of Teddington must pass
through Sandy Lane.

LAMARTINE C B YEOMAN (SERJEANT BUZFUZ) Hon. Sec.