Identifier: brightonroadclas00harp (find matches)
Title: The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Harper, Charles G. (Charles George), 1863-1943
Subjects: Horses Brighton (England) -- Description and travel England -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London : C. Palmer
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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n the Brighton Road were set a-going, for during the March of that year two once well-known amateur pedestrian members of the Stock Exchange, W. M. and H. J. Chinnery, walked down to Brighton in 11 hrs. 25 mins., and on April 14th C. A. Booth bettered Mayalls adventure, riding down on a velocipede in 9 hrs. 30 mins. Then came the Amateur Bicycle Clubs race, September 19th, 1872. By that time not only had the word velocipede been discarded for bicycle, and treadles become pedals, but the machine itself, although in general appearance very much the same, had been improved in detail. The 36-inch front wheel had been increased to 44 inches, the wooden spokes had given place to wire, and stripsof rubber, nailed on, replaced the iron tyres. Probablyas a result of these refinements the winner, A Temple, reached Brighton in 5 hrs. 25 mins. 70 THE BRIGHTON ROAD By 1872 the bicycle had advanced a further stage towards the giraffe-like altitude of the ordinary, and already there were many clubs in existence. On
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i JOHN.MAYALL, JUNIOR, 1869. From a contemporary photograph. August 16th of that year six members of the Surrey and six of the Middlesex Bicycle Clubs rode from Oval to Brighton and back, Causton Kennington RECORDS 71 captain of the Surrey, being the first into Brighton. Riding a 50-inch Keen bicycle he reeled off the fifty miles in 4 hrs. 51 mins. The new machine was something to be reckoned with. On February 9th, 1874, a certain John Revel, junr., backed himself in heavy sums to ride a bicycle the whole distance from Brighton to London quicker than a Mr. Gregory could walk the 22 J miles from Reigate to London. Revel was to leave Brighton at the junction of the London and Montpellier roads at the same time as Gregory started from a point between the twenty-second and twenty-third milestones. The pedestrian won, finishing in 3 hrs. 27 mins. 47 sees., Revel taking 5 hrs. 57 mins. for the whole journey. The bicycle had by this time firmly established itself. It grew more and more of an athletic exerc

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