The Priory School: On the Subject of Bicycles

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

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.


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Comments

[debriswoman]

Fascinating:-)

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

The MMI full of interesting information every addition.

[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.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Me neither. I was looking up bicycle tyres when I came across this article, which was too good to miss.

[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.)

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately Doyle was a man of his time. We know Holmes reflects some of the attitudes Doyle had for those races he considered lower.

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Pigeony thanks very much for the tip, Marylebone Illustrated.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Delighted to have provided you with the information.

[debriswoman]

Mainly bicycle related information...

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling it may be different next week ...

[debriswoman]

But I like bicycles:-(

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

We have noted your interest and will arrange for more bicycle articles to be included in later additions.

[debriswoman]

Hooray:-)