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Pickwick Bicycle Club Magazine. Volume 9 No.3 October 2012 27
From the Archives

Here we have more pages from the very rare club handbook that is in the possession of our
colleague Welps. He kindly offered to share the contents through scanned images for the
magazine.

We showed the first nine pages of the book ,which is dated 1885, in the July issue. 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. Our July
issue showed the outer
pages - front and back,
together with a scan of the
inner two. These were
followed with scans of the