SearchCTC Cambridge in the 1930s
Saturday 30 December 2023
This is a selection from the hundreds of photographs that were taken by club member and former president Donnex Claydon (1910 - 2006). Most were taken in the mid-1930's but one or two were taken later.
The original photos were 3.25" slides and were converted to digital format by the late Peter Rowell. The dates and places mentioned were written on the slide.
(If you recognise any of the locations or people, or can tell us more about these photographs, we'd love to hear from you).
On the road
Tea and other refreshments
Touring
Camping
High Jinks
Fords, rivers and floods
Local places
Woburn
Hostelling
Other
On the occasion of King George V's Jubilee 1935
Brookside, Cambridge
Donnex and Doris Claydon (in the middle) at Brookside in 1936.
CTC Cambridge District Association
The "1935 Girls"
On the road
Puncture
Puncture
Mechanical problem?
Minor repairs
1935 - A bent crank
1934
Winter riding
1934 - Christmas morning
1937 - Christmas morning
Tea and other refreshments
1936 - Tea at The King's Head, Moulton
1935 - Clubroom at The Golden Ball, Boxworth
1933
1939
Touring
Whitsun tour 1937
Kersey, Suffolk
1935
1935 - Lunch time
Lunchtime
Tea stop. Note CTC emblem above door
1949 - Dovedale, Derbyshire
1936 - Miller's Dale, Derbyshire
Camping
Camping weekend
Tooth brushing
Camping trip 1935
1934 - Camping
High jinks
1934
Acting the goat (as usual)
Tube bursting competition
1936 - Fancy dress, Haslingfield
1937 - Having a kip near Great Snoring
1934 - Risks of winter riding
1937 - Nigel on a trike
Fords, rivers and floods
1935
22nd May 1932 - Flooded road
Off-road
Off-road
1953 - Flooded road
1933 - Flooded road
1936. John Burn-Murdoch and Bill Sillitoe
Local places
1933 - Ely
Thaxted Guildhall, Essex
Woburn
Oxford DA vs Cambridge DA darts match at The Bell, Woburn. The pewter tankard that was awarded is still in the possession of the club and can be seen here
Woburn 1936
Hostelling
Youth hostels around Cambridge
Breakfast at Castle Headingham Y.H. (during reconstruction)
1937 - Sewing at Houghton Mill Y.H.
Other
On the occasion of King George V's Jubilee 1935
This newspaper photograph shows members of CTC Cambridge outside the old Cambridge Guildhall in 1935. Len Nice is the third cyclist from the left, and Donnex Claydon is the cyclist on the far right.
From the collection of Vic Claydon. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph describes the occasion:
On the occasion of King George V's Jubilee 1935
A message of goodwill to the King was carried by teams of members of the C.T.C. the length and breadth of the British Isles and was signed by the Mayors of the towns on route (The Provosts in Scotland) and finally presented to his majesty at Buckingham Palace. Members of the Cambridge carried the document from Newmarket via Cambridge to Bedford.
This is a Cambridge Daily News photograph of the team outside the old Cambridge Guildhall, after being entertained to coffee by the deputy mayor and the signing of the document.
The team L to R Messrs J.A.Burn-Murdoch, E.Spivy, L.V.Nice, A.J.Moore, H.Denny, C.G.Moore and W.J.Claydon.
Standing behind is the deputy mayor (Ald Spalding) and his daughter, also Mr G.H.M.Pitt (in raincoat) a very active member of the Cambridge at that time.
Photo by Cambridge Daily News April 23rd 1935.