Some Interesting Photos and Facts from the Pickwick Bicycle Club Collection
From a journal by George Foster of a bicycle trip through the Pyrenees in 1899 .
…Whilst standing in the street discussing whether to go on further and “chance” what accommodation we could get, or to stay in this quaint old town, a man in cycling costume came up and addressed us in English. We were of course rather surprised. I was uncertain at first whether our new acquaintance was a Yankee or an Englishman, but soon found he was the latter. He was Mr Boulter of The Pickwick C.C. and turned out a fine fellow.
Pickwick Screen - Dickens Exhibition 1903
Hammersmith Bridge - 1900
A 19th Centerary Membership Certificate
An old Performance Certificate
Information on Bicycle Clubs on plaque in the Harlow Bicycle Museum
Walter W Welford, Secretary of the Bicycle Touring Club
Unknown (Sam Weller?) from the Dickens Museum - possibly at the George & Vulture
The 'Original Member' marked on the back, Herbert Bridge Past President
Colour drawing of Mr Pickwick with Flags - from the Dickens Collection
Count Smorlltork
St Clements Church, Ipswich - from Pickwick Papers
From the Bull Inn, Whitechapel - Where Mr Pickwick caught the coach to Ipswich
Bull Inn Yard
The Parlour of the Leather Bottle, Cobham
Unconfirmed but possibly the same Parlour at a latter date...
Still hanging in the Leather Bottle, Cobham