Hastings & St .Leonards Cycling Club Archive

A Helliwell

This is the information held in the database about A Helliwell.

I continue to clean the data (I am aware that there are duplicate resuls for example). If you can fill in any gaps (dates for examples), have any other results, or spot any errors please email us at: hastingsccarchive@gmail.com.

Trophies

Note that 12 Hour trophies will sort both Time and Distance

Records

Time Trial Results

Newspaper Articles

Hover over an image to see more detail, or you click on the image to open the newspaper extract (opens in a new window).

Date Newspaper	Article
6/09/1930 Hastings Observer 110	Club Notes During last weekend the open 25 miles road event promoted by the Hastings Club was decided under good conditions. B Bevan, of the Highgate CC gained a well merited success in achieving the fastest time. In doing so he improved on last year’s winning time to the extent of 96 seconds and brought the course record down by 39 seconds. S E Maplesden of the Eastbourne C and AC, scored a popular win in annexing the first handicap award. In connection with this , it is interesting to note that by reason of handicap allowances, 10 competitors were brough within 1½ minutes of Maplesden. This indicates the judgement with which the handicaps were awarded. In the race for the team honours (aggregate of the the three fastest men of one club), a fine struggle ensued, in which only 10 seconds covered the first three clubs. The following gives the chief results: 1st fastest B Bevan (Highgate CC), 1hr 5mins 10secs: 2nd fastest, E L Parsonson (Clapham CC), 1hr 7 mins 1sec: 3rd fastest H A Longley (Brighton Stanley) and G W Stanford (San Fairy Ann CC) 1hr 7mins 13secs. 1st handicap S E Maplesden (Eastbourne) 5 ¾ mins, 1hr 3mins 9secs; 2nd handicap G W Stanford (San Fairy Ann) 4 mins 1hr 3mins 13 secs; 3rd handicap R Westgate (Brighton Ex) [Brighton Excel], 6½ 1hr 4mins 26secs; 4th handicap, G Sinden (Hastings) 7mins, 1hr 4mins 28secs; 1st team San Fairy Ann (Maidstone), 3hrs 28mins 31secs; 2nd team, Clapham CC, 3hrs 26mins 37secs; 3rd team, Brighton Stanley, 3hrs 26mins 41secs. Mr Harvey Smith (the club’s chairman) was timekeeper for the event assisted by F L March [Frederick March]. The timekeeping at the halfway stage was accomplished by Mr A I Balchin, with Mr F Rix acting as pivot for the riders’ turning. The thanks of the club are due to Messers. Jenkins, Tester, Bliss, Mabb and Emary for marshalling the course. As referee, Sir Charles Kirkpatrick maintained a keen and interested watch over the whole activities. The organisation of the event was in the hands of Mr F C Gasson (hon. Secretary). This weekend the club will be represented by J F Mackie, A Helliwell, R Harmer and C W Sinden in the 12 hours road event promoted by the Southern Counties Cycling Union. Event: Club 25 miles 30 August 1930, Southern Counties CU 12 Hour 7 September 1930,

Documents

This is a list of documents held in the database. This does not include start and result sheets. These can be accessed via the results page or through the Clubs Page

Images

You can sort by Date, Caption (based on the text) and Event (note there may not be an event lnked to an image and these will appear first)

Date      Caption      Event
Albert Lingham known as Chiefy (bottom left), Percy Bliss (bottom right). Bill Giffen is sat next to the Lady. This could be around 1936, the Diamond anniversary of the club's formation, as both Helliwell Twins would pass away by 1939. In other photographs there is a notice on the wall commemorating the that the club was formed at the Swan Hotel in 1876 at the bottom of the High Street (bombed during the war). This could be outside the Castle Hotel, which was the Club HQ. Image #76   Hastings & St.Leonards CC Archive Facebook Page      Hastings & St.Leonards CC Website   Hastings & St.Leonards CC Facebook Page      Hastings & St.Leonards CC Blogspot (archived)   Web site hand coded by Tim