Articles on subjects as diverse as bicycle technology and its history,
1970s rock music, Thames Valley recusants, English garden birds
and family history. On the web since 1 January 1998.
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Bicycle Technology and History
Raleigh: Past & Presence of an Iconic Bicycle Brand, the most comprehensive history of Raleigh yet published.

Raleigh's recent past, an expanded and updated version of Tony's 2000 paper.

Moultons - small-wheels, big pedigree.

Some other small-wheelers and portables.

Bicycle gears - whether you are into hub gears or derailleurs, you'll find something interesting here.

Did Brits invent the MTB?
Mike Daly makes his case, with tongue in cheek.

Bicycle science and design, including aerodynamics and rolling resistance.

Human powered vehicles, especially the Mochet Velocar.

Marcel Berthet and the 1908 Tour.

Moorson cycles - classic Birmingham lightweights.

NZ bikes of the early 1980s - Michael Toohey's illustrated introduction

Cycling history interviews - Full length oral history interviews with Jack Lauterwasser, Alex Moulton, John Woodburn, Derek Roberts and David Duffield - listen free of charge.
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Rosemary Hadland's Gallery
The Sky's the Limit - a photographic collection, as seen at the Vale & Downland Museum.

The Falklands - Rosemary's exhibition, as seen at The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock, in 2009.

Wantage-Grove French Twinning trip, 2009
A slideshow of Rosemary's pictures of Mably, Burgundy, Reims, Dijon, Beaune and St Omer.

1970s Rock Interviews
Extracts from Tony's many radio interviews with album artistes, from Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin to Cliff Richard via Steeleye Span. Listen here.

William Gill - Explorer & Spy
Tony's great-great uncle inherited a fortune and spent it on exploration. He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society and was murdered whilst working undercover in Egypt. Read extracts from his travel diaries.

English Garden Birds
Photos and sounds from a typical English garden. Includes the May Day dawn chorus. It's all here.

Faces of Oxfordshire
A project on behalf of the Oxfordshire Family History Society: Family Faces

Airshow photos
Taken by Tony in Gloucestershire, summer 2009: Kemble Airshow

 Thames Valley Recusants
Outlawed for 10 generations, and largely edited out of history, an ember of Roman Catholicism survived in Berkshire and Oxfordshire. Find out how.

Sinnott on Freethought
Read Nigel Sinnott's booklet Frightened Freethinkers and Timid Rationalists and his talk on the Rev. Stewart Headlam and Friends (both in PDF format).

Family Tree
Ancestors and relatives of Tony & Rosemary Hadland, with surnames including Hadland, Jeffree, Sealey, Fisher, Gill, Young, Mitchell, Lovewell, Wilson, Le Couteur and many more. Click here

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