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Pickwick Bicycle Club Magazine Volume 13 No.2 October 2016 10

Samkin’s Guest List cont’d…….

I would like to introduce our principal guest today, Bob “the Cat” Bevan; a man who
left Wilsons Grammar School, Camberwell, South London, with one ‘O’ level in English
Language. In spite of this, Bob has had four very successful careers: trainee salesman
with a builders merchant; sub-editor on the world’s oldest newspaper Lloyds List and
Shipping Gazette being promoted to assistant chief reporter (not sure this was a
promotion). At the same time using his selling skills moonlighting by selling brushes for
Kleen-E-Eze. He then moved into PR with Hartford PR Limited and worked with
European Ferries who were launching Townsend Thoresen car ferries. Finally in 1983 he
turned his attention to the after-dinner circuit and the entertainment business. Bob
has a keen passion for sport, with football being his first love. He has played some 500
nd
games for Old Wilsonians FC in every position, and Kent League tennis for them and 2
and 1 Eleven cricket in the North Kent League. Since leaving school he has raised
st
thousands of pounds for sports clubs and charities for which he was awarded an MBE.
Setting aside Bob’s business and sporting career for a moment, anyone over the age of
50 will be impressed to know that Bob’s partner is one of the dancers in Pans People! –
Lucky man!

Members of The Pickwick Club please now be upstanding, and the Toast is “Our Guests”.
Samkin

Whilst the Golf Day report follows, the mention above of the
newly acquired Winkle Cup Replica is great news, but leaves
the Club with a dilemma of what to do with it. It seems a
sensible move to use it for the Golf Day, and our organiser has
suggested that perhaps it should be for nearest the pin, for a
guest player. I can already hear PrufBle bemoaning the fact
that the Golf Day has all the ‘bxxxxx’ cups, however I’m sure a
sensible outcome will prevail. No doubt it will be Smithers
guest who wins it though! Editor