Cycling

Wheatley Hill Boys School Cycling Club – Trip to the Roman Wall Part 2

April 30, 2010

After a long period of riding we came to an old ruined Roman Fort. It wasn’t much so we went straight on. The leader saw the old ruined Roman Fort at Housesteads and told us to stop. The price to go and see it was 6d a person. The leader told us the hostel was about 3 miles away. It took us about a quarter of one hour but it wasn’t open se we went straight down to the cafe … [Read more...] about Wheatley Hill Boys School Cycling Club – Trip to the Roman Wall Part 2

Wheatley Hill Boys School Cycling Club – Trip to Edmondbyers

October 13, 2009

On 27th December 1950, six of us went on the first school cycling tour. The names of the boys who went were John Purvis, Robert Dawson, Edward Fulcher, Leslie Alderton, Edward Lawson and the leader was Mr Brown. After meeting at Mr Brown’s home at half past nine, we set out over snow covered roads which changed to rutted iced roads near Durham. When we got to Durham, the roads … [Read more...] about Wheatley Hill Boys School Cycling Club – Trip to Edmondbyers

As you’re aware, our meetings have been cancelled until March 2021, but we thought it would be a good idea to try and make contact remotely, using the Zoom video conferencing system. It’s not as difficult as it sounds!!

The good news is the meetings only last 40 minutes online and the software is free to download. The History Club committee have met a couple of times using Zoom, and both were very successful.

We are planning to hold a local history quiz for our meeting at the end of November to give you time to download the software onto any of your devices. Once its downloaded, let me know if you’re interested in taking part and I’ll set up a test meeting so that we can all become familiar with it before the big day!!

You will need to let us know in advance if you intend to join the meeting, as I need to send you an email invitation with a password in order for you to enter the meeting. This is a great opportunity for our members who live out of the area and can’t travel to our meetings, to become involved.

We’ll keep it amongst our members for this first time, but Zoom has the potential to include all interested parties.