[identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] sherlock60
Canon Story: The Priory School
Title: On the Subject of Bicycles (as featured in the Marylebone Illustrated)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

Whilst readers have grown accustomed to seeing officials from the Post Office using bicycles to deliver telegrams, it is not as widely known that our troops are now also using bicycles for carrying despatches.  In addition bicycles are used to transport carrier pigeons.  The birds become distressed when transported on horseback, but take more kindly to being moved by bicycle.


Further information here

Date: 2015-09-06 11:28 am (UTC)
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)
From: [personal profile] debriswoman
Fascinating:-)

Date: 2015-09-06 01:13 pm (UTC)
ext_1620665: knight on horseback (Default)
From: [identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
I hadn't known how important bicycles were in the military... Thank you for pointing us towards the extra information too. I was interested to read more on the subject - and to see the pictures and photographs. The machine gun tricycle was somewhat unexpected.

Date: 2015-09-06 04:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gardnerhill.livejournal.com
Sadly, what stuck out in that page was that Doyle got that "Sir" for a work supporting the idea of concentration camps. (Makes me want to go to Minstead and chisel out that "Knight" on his headstone.)

Date: 2015-09-06 05:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laurose8.livejournal.com
Pigeony thanks very much for the tip, Marylebone Illustrated.
Edited Date: 2015-09-06 05:54 pm (UTC)

Date: 2015-09-06 06:31 pm (UTC)
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)
From: [personal profile] debriswoman
Mainly bicycle related information...

Date: 2015-09-06 11:04 pm (UTC)
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)
From: [personal profile] debriswoman
But I like bicycles:-(

Date: 2015-09-07 06:17 pm (UTC)
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)
From: [personal profile] debriswoman
Hooray:-)

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