Notes & References
…Reminiscences, S.E. Edge, Foulis & Co, London, 1934. ” … Hotel Cecil, London’s largest, swankiest hotel …”: The Hotel Cecil, built 1890–96, was one of London’s biggest and grandest hotels….
Continue Reading…Reminiscences, S.E. Edge, Foulis & Co, London, 1934. ” … Hotel Cecil, London’s largest, swankiest hotel …”: The Hotel Cecil, built 1890–96, was one of London’s biggest and grandest hotels….
Continue Reading…met to discuss cycling matters in the Hut hotel, an alehouse overlooking Bolder Mere. One of these matters was no doubt the state of the roads, including the once well-surfaced…
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Continue Reading…not built for sulkies, or steam engines, or any form of wheeled vehicle. Roads were not built for horses, either. Roads were built for pedestrians. H. G. Wells pointed this…
Continue Reading…Club at the Annual Congress of the International League of Touring Associations. M. Charbonnier, Cantonal Engineers of Geneva, showed me an experiment he was making with hot tar on the…
Continue Reading…to die in one,” said H. G. Wells in 1901.[1] When the use of stagecoaches tailed off thanks to competition from railways, Britain’s expensive turnpikes went through a period of…
Continue Reading…£4000) I found out there was demand for the information. If you haven’t already signed up for the book notification email, please do so. Your details won’t be sold or…
Continue Reading…cycleways which duplicate the main arteries and feed both the housing and the industrial areas. Mr Claxton was a keen cyclist and was well aware of the need to cater…
Continue Reading…I mean “eventually” because I’m always kind of busy. There have been other chapters placed online already, including SPEED, WHO OWNS THE ROADS, and PIONEERS. And here’s Chapter Six: http://test.skimlinks.com…
Continue Reading…been updated and is due to be updated again – it will always have the most up-to-date info. It’s not as easy to nudge Amazon into notifying Kindle-version buyers of…
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