Remember When............

[andrewalston]

I wonder if Pedestrian Crossing Week actually worked. The figures shown are pretty static from year to year.

Were the accident figures for 1949 and 1950 better?

Remember that those numbers are just for Hull! Certainly, the current figures are much improved, or we would have Hull mentioned every day in the national news.

We seem to have learned a fair bit since then. What do you reckon has had most effect? Some ideas:

• Car design - more pedestrian-friendly bodywork
• Car design - safety cells, seatbelts and airbags to protect the occupants
• Road design - better separation of vehicles and pedestrians
• Speed limits
• Drink-driving laws
• MOT tests to ensure roadworthiness

[Top-of-the-hill]

  All those probably, though I am not sure about road design. Car occupant safety will be even better when they get round to designing car interiors around women as well as men. I heard that one company is just trying out a female crash test dummy.

[Ray T]

I remember coming home from work one evening. The route I used was used by quite a few recreational cyclists.

The speed limit went from 30 to 40, and I came upon one such keeping up about 38 mph.

Not having the chance to pass him, I noticed his calf muscles. Most peoples' calves are rounded; his showed defined muscles, and he was using them.

Only when the limit upped to 60 did I get a chance to overtake, and then I noticed the distinctive sideburns.

Bradley Wiggins heading home!

Bradley spent some time in a flat above the local barbers just down the road from here - you could often see the pile of freshly launderd GB jerseys in the window! Rob Hales also lived a few miles away and I assume he got sick of people asking to see his olympic medals so he humg them in the front room window.

A late friend of mine was cycling in the Cheshire lanes a number of years ago when she overtook an old chap travelling slowly. She wished him good morning, as cyclists do, and then reallised she’d just said hello to Reg Harris.

[BumbleB]

Reg Harris - now there's a name to remember (especially if you're married to an ex-cyclist) plus of course Bradley Wiggins, Tom Simpson, etc. etc. etc.  OH was a racing cyclist from the 1950's onwards - we still have his BLRC (British League of Racing Cyclists) metal badge.     

[Mike in Cumbria]

Reg Harris - now there's a name to remember (especially if you're married to an ex-cyclist) plus of course Bradley Wiggins, Tom Simpson, etc. etc. etc.  OH was a racing cyclist from the 1950's onwards - we still have his BLRC (British League of Racing Cyclists) metal badge.   

I'm sure you know of Brian Robinson, who lived just up the road from me (I went to school with his daughter)  and who died last week. Obituary here https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more-sports/obituary-brian-robinson-the-first-of-his-kind/ar-AA13wcJr

[BumbleB]

Yes, OH did know him.

AND we do have a photograph of OH racing against Jacques Anquetil - IoM back in the 1950's.

[Treetotal]

Interesting - thanks for sharing, Carol.
I love the artwork too.

You prompted me to have a closer look.

Did you notice the naughty pillion passenger apparently kissing the driver? I don't know what's the matter with young people today.......

No I didn't notice that Jen 
Carol

[Treetotal]

No one ever mentions the "Green Cross Code" these days, I don't know if if is still mentioned in schools.
I do remember my Mother telling me to "only cross the road at the Belisha Beacons"
Also our two children wore orange arm bands with reflective lights in the winter months.
Carol

[Erato]

We had school crossing ladies who were stationed at points near the schools where children would have to cross a major street.  I did not have to cross the main street to get to school.  Usually I took a short cut along the railroad tracks and entered the school grounds from the back.  But I knew the crossing lady, Mrs. Perlman - she had bright red hair and so did her daughter who was a pupil at the school.