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6 Pickwick Bicycle Club Magazine. Volume 9 No.3 October 2012

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matters concerning the club and its activities. All letters are welcome and your ‘Mere’
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Editor’s Note: Pickwickians - I can’t find your letters: please write - I am lonely! Or e-mail stan@stanrosefamily.com

CLEVELAND STREET WORKHOUSE A Paralympics Volunteer
From: Ruth Richardson
Hi there Stan - thought I would attach the
I am writing because you were kind enough to pic showing myself at the Paralympic Cycling
@ Brands Hatch as one of the 70000
sign the petition to help save the Cleveland
volunteers. Not allowed to wear anything other
Street Workhouse. than the official
uniform so guess
a fine could be in
I have two bits of good news to share:
order!!
First: the extraordinary history of the Workhouse
At least the club
you helped to save, and the four+ years of was represented
Charles Dickens's life only a few doors away, even if in
camouflage.
has been researched and written up in book
Amazing people
form and published by Oxford University the Paralympians,
Press:http://ukcataloque.oup.com/product/97801 they all deserved
medals for their
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commitment, and
an amazing time
You are included in the book's dedication. was had by the
Please do ask for it at your local library, and take volunteers.
a look!
Were any other Pickwickians part of the
Volunteer force I wonder?
Second: Camden Council has been applied to
Not sure who the guests will be for the
for planning permission and listed building
December luncheon but names such as Jody
consent for the erection of a blue plaque on Cundy & Mark Colbourne, both medallists
Dickens's old home on the corner of Tottenham might appreciate a bit of post-Olympic
Street and Cleveland Street, now No. 22 recognition.
Cleveland Street. The text on the plaque has
Certainly these Paralympics puts faces to
been agreed, the house's owners are very names and some became as well known as
happy, we have sponsorship for the cost of it, the Olympian participants.
and we are hoping there will be bubbly on the
Anyway .....best wishes
day. I will write again when there is a firm date
for the unveiling. Kindest regards -
Mr Winkle Senior
Ruth Richardson, historian.
(Aka - Roger Warwick).