Frances reads Neville's letter, all about bicycles, describing a family bicycling tour in 1907.
Four brothers and two sisters set off from Studland for an 8 day cycling tour.
Edmund, Neville, Bernard, Cuthbert, Avice and Vera.
They cycle 186 miles (300km) around England, visiting Stonehenge, castles and churches.
If you are interested in following Arthur’s lead, you may like to look up their route, but you don’t have to use a Harmsworth atlas as Arthur did. Online maps are now much better.
They cycled from Studland to Swanage, then took a train to Salisbury.
Then they cycled to Stonehenge, Devizes, Bradford-upon Avon and Bath.
Then they took a train from Bath to Chepstow.
Then they cycled to Tintern Abbey, Monmouth, Ross-on-Wye, Hereford, Leominster and Ludlow.
Then they cycled up and over Clee Hill, then to Cleobury Mortimer and Bewdley.
Then they took a train to Stourbridge, then cycled to Enville (where they lived, as children).
Then they took a train to Coventry.
Then they cycled to Kenilworth, Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon.
And finally they took a train back to Sydenham in South London.
Intro - 00:00
Bicycles - 00:34
Studland 1907 - 19:56
Neville's letter 2 September - 26:52
Notes on Neville's letter - 35:28
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