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…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…can cycle or walk anywhere you wish in Stevenage and never encounter a motor vehicle…What is the worth of never, ever, having an obstruction or aggravation in travelling? What price…
Continue Reading…near the city and upon a market day, when, a man having travelled a long and tedious journey … shall sometimes be compelled to cross out of his way twenty…
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“A far higher standard of care should be demanded of the motorist by reason of his having brought upon the public roads a lethal instrument of great mobility and power,”…
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…going crazy fast, updating me with pledges. I went to sleep in a Coventry hotel knowing I was a quarter of the way to my target already. The next day…
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