Hewitt's History Files
"That's how the Horsham Road would have looked when our early members hammered out their medal rides, which used a course based on Broadwater Green to Woodhatch and return with dog-legs to Chichester and so on to build up the distance," he says.
"The early days of the club's history are a bit hazy, especially as it has no minute books prior to January 1, 1901, but the Worthing Gazette records a founding meeting on top of the Washington Bostal in September 1889."
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"You'll spot that they are already well established, with a club uniform (grey Norfolk jacket, grey knickerbockers, blue stockings and cap), although the cap badge, perhaps a winged W, beats me."
For full feature see West Sussex Gazette October 1