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…
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…record cyclists at 10 sites across metropolitan Melbourne from October 2008 to April 2009. They found that of 4,225 cyclists facing a red light, only 6.9% didn’t stop. When a…
Continue Reading…the building as possible.” THE CYCLE NETWORK THAT TIME FORGOT Most of the infrastructure built by Claxton in the 1950s and 1960s – and which was a mature network by…
Continue Reading…with their dung and their urine; these, as well as other filth, a absorbed by the wood, and ferment in its fibres. Under a hot sun, morbid germs are drawn…
Continue ReadingNow that the book is nearly out I’m taking a rest from writing feature articles on this site. The blog archive is still intact and all of the URLs still…
Continue ReadingNow that the book is nearly out I’m taking a rest from writing feature articles on this site. The blog archive is still intact and all of the URLs still…
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…cycle-only “side-paths”, it had 40 miles of wide boulevards, which bicyclists had almost to themselves: the well-surfaced boulevards were for “pleasure vehicles” only, horse-drawn wagons were only allowed on dirt…
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