Children of Beaconsfield Cycling Club members about to set off on a trip to Morecambe
THESE children of members of the Beaconsfield Cycling Club at Thwaites were about to set off on a trip to Morecambe in the later 1940s.
The boy standing highest at the back has already stripped to the waist ready for the beach!
The Beaconsfield Club was a product of the late Victorian cycling boom, but by 1912 it could only muster 36 members.
Like many similar clubs, however, billiards, cards, darts, dominoes and a bar proved to be its saviours.
When it opened extensions in 1968 the Keighley News observed that there was “not a bicycle to be seen”!
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