Fred Fletcher – champion cyclist

Fred Fletcher – champion cyclist

A second Society plaque now adorns the walls of the Sir John Warren in the Market Place commemorating the Ilkeston Bicycle Club and the town’s champion rider, Fred Fletcher. Fred was born over his father’s chemist shop at 69 Bath Street on 8 August 1869....
Deals on Wheels

Deals on Wheels

The companion volume to Jeff Wynch’s A Town on Two Wheels — Deals on Wheels — is now available. In the final two decades of the nineteenth century the booming cycling community was served by a surprising number of inventors, retailers, repairers and manufacturers in...