Cycling in the 1940s

[presta]

Leeds Clarion, during the war years.

~1941?

Easter 1942

Black Sail, August 1942

Honister, August 1942

August 1944

Augut 1945

 

[sevenfourate]

FABULOUS pictures. How cool ! The Gentleman mocking the Steep Hill sign - i love..........

 

[presta]

FABULOUS pictures. How cool ! The Gentleman mocking the Steep Hill sign - i love..........

Yes, I like that one too, he was my father's best friend Stan, and it was the notion that cyclists should get off and walk that he was thumbing his nose at. That sign was still there for another 60 years, I used to think of the photo every time I passed it.

Then there's the mountain biking 15 years before the RSF, and 40 years before mountain bikes.

 

[Cycleops]

Talk about the nanny state: ' Cyclists are strongly advised to walk'. Otherwise what?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Talk about the nanny state: ' Cyclists are strongly advised to walk'. Otherwise what?

If only it said Motorists are strongly advised to walk or cycle…

 

[wiggydiggy]

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Black Sail, August 1942

I've been there! In fact my profile picture is taken on the bank of the River Liza taken further downstream.

 

[Sharky]

Could be a bit earlier, 1937 - 39.

 

[Drago]

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Could be a bit earlier, 1937 - 39.

Or Accy, this morning.

 

[presta]

I've been there! In fact my profile picture is taken on the bank of the River Liza taken further downstream.

Were you staying at Black Sail hostel?

I've only had one night there in 1971, I always wanted to go back, but never managed it. I gather they have a shower there nowadays, when I was there the washing facility was an enamel jug of cold water on the table, and an enamel bowl. In my father's day it was a wash in the beck.

I like the little, remote hostels best. Simple and unspoilt, in places where nobody else would get planning permission.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Were you staying at Black Sail hostel?

I've only had one night there in 1971, I always wanted to go back, but never managed it. I gather they have a shower there nowadays, when I was there the washing facility was an enamel jug of cold water on the table, and an enamel bowl. In my father's day it was a wash in the beck.

I like the little, remote hostels best. Simple and unspoilt, in places where nobody else would get planning permission.

Unfortunately not, but I was camping nearby at Seatoller. Lovely little place, couple pubs and not much else.

I was cycling an Ennerdale loop, there was a hotel once on the shores of Ennerdale. Southern end, I think it was connected with fishing on the water.

 

[I like Skol]

FABULOUS pictures. How cool ! The Gentleman mocking the Steep Hill sign - i love..........

That would have been me, both the attire and the attitude!

 

[I like Skol]

That would have been me, both the attire and the attitude!

In fact, I still have the shoes....

 

[Drago]

Cyclists are strongly advised to walk, eh?

Hold my beer!

 

[I like Skol]

Cyclists are strongly advised to walk, eh?

Hold my beer!

Oi! That's my strapline (or was)!

 

[presta]

Found a couple more up in the loft this afternoon.

Some old postcards: