smary Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Just Google Wes Mason - and it appears he runs a cycle shop in Wales -Powys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert T Smith Posted November 25, 2007 Author Share Posted November 25, 2007 We think Wes later married Albert Hitchens wife????Albert was a well known professional cyclist in the early 60's That name ' Albert Hitchens ' brings back memory's. I was never any good at racing, Someone needs to lose or someone else can't win!!, but I certainly covered a lot of miles training almost every night in the fifties. The roads were not like today. I would often cycle via the Flouch, over Woodhead to DunfordBridge, Glossop, Up the Snake and back to Malin Bridge. During the run I would have had about twelve cars pass me and invariably the drivers were former cyclist so they always gave you plenty of room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smary Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 I am sure my husband will remember some of those places - he cycled a lot in those days and when we return to the Sheffield area he often comments how difficult it is these days to cycle. He was in the Sheffield Sports cycling club which used to meet up near Beauchief Arms. His heyday was about 59-67 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert T Smith Posted November 26, 2007 Author Share Posted November 26, 2007 I am sure my husband will remember some of those places - he cycled a lot in those days and when we return to the Sheffield area he often comments how difficult it is these days to cycle. He was in the Sheffield Sports cycling club which used to meet up near Beauchief Arms. His heyday was about 59-67 I've know doubt that we would have met because I'd often meet up at Beauchief Post Office. Did he know ' Sandy '. Barry Sanderson? He lived at Crookes or Walkley and often did twenty fours or twelve hour races in his younger days. The year that the Volcano came up out of the sea near Iceland, Sandy was on a long cycling holiday and observed it. The main trouble came after when instead of sending his photos to AGFA to be developed he did them himself and made a,' Grand Stand ---- Up ' of them. Photographic memories of a lietime gone that will never be repeated all gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Pardon me, but is it the same Henry Holmes who had a shop down Attercliffe. Surely it must've been just his name over the door. And was'nt the chap named Coe a relative of the well known MP and Olympic runner Seb? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smary Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 Henry Holmes did have two shops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnie Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Henry Holmes did have two shops Henry Holmes had two shops, one on London Rd, the other was near Endcliffe Park not far from Ecclesall Rd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnie Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 I got to know Wes when we both worked at Wostenholme´s Cutlery factory in the tool room. Wes was around 17 and I was 16 and he got me to join his club, the Sheffield Wheelers. Wes was a fanatic when it came to training. He was out training every evening. One evening towards the flat side of Sheffield, Blyth, Mansfield the next evening in Derbyshire, "60 miles on the bottoms" as he would say, and I think this was a sort of warning not to get the idea to tag along! He always said that he trained to make the actual racing event easy! Every race I saw him in, he won but that was when he was a junior( up to 18 ). Wes looked a lot older than he was and was about 5ft.10 or 11 and built like a brick.....house. Really much too heavy for a cyclist but very powerful. I am not sure whether he finished his apprenticeship as a toolmaker ( at which he was very good) but I do know he became a postman so that he could train even more. Wes lived in the Hillsborough area of Sheffied. His dad always used to bring him to the events in his Ford Popular. I remember he had a bike sponsored by a bike shop up Ecclesall way, but not Holmes. I remember we were out at the Blyth cyclist meeting place, must have been 1959/60 and Tom Simpson and some of his buddies were there. We rode back with him to his turn off to Harworth. I nearly fell off my bike they went so slow !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smary Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Wes Mason came to our wedding - we had a guard of honour which consisted of members of the Sheffield Cycling Club holding up one of their wheels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smary Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Well Ronnie you may know my husband Bob Winter - he was quite good in his day and used to ride a lot with Wes. Bob qualified for the Milk Race as it was in those days but unfortunately got rheumatic fever just before the start of the season. They were franatical about training and thats really how we met - at the end of the season they needed a couple of girls for the party season - I was requested to join him and Wes along with another girl from our office. I finished up marrying Bob and Wes went on to marry another girl called Sue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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