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lages,
1943.
1944.
unique,
G.H.Stancer
British cycling,
own Chairman.
was
it was so selective,
held until his death.
from 1920 onwards,
storms and snow-scenes.
Frank Patterson.
azine from 1910 to 1920,
which Bidlake certainly did not.
Records Association from 1936.
yet in a way detached from it.
picturesque old inns and tea-shops,
Chairman of the Bidlake Trust itself,

He was the editor of Cycling
he had never been a great racing man himself.
mag-
Stancer differed from Bidlake in that
George Herbert Stancer.It was another
regarded as the elder statesman of
the position that Bidlake himself had
cyclists against the background of Britain’s countryside:
Frank Patterson
He did
the Secretary of the CTC
however actively support women’s entry into racing,
lack of imagination in bestowing this honour on its
wonder if the committee wasn’t showing a certain
and one may
He was also the
and President of the Road
cycling subjects had appeared in Cycling magazine for 51 years.
establishment figure who took the award:
the open road,
rivers flowing under ancient bridges,
was a superb graphic artist,
wooded hillsides,

but it inspired thousands of urban cyclists to explore the countryside,

summer sunshine,
G.H.Stancer,Patterson’s wife,and F .J.Urry.
delightful vil-
rain-
His pictures showed racing and touring
The Unfinished Story
whose drawings of
His work presented an idyllic picture of Britain which was unrealistic in that
Frank Patterson,in his garden in Sussex,flanked by Syd
looking for
This year’s award was to a man whose contribution to cycling was truly
Vanheems,
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