Bit of a wet start today, but as their early start qualified them for two lunches, one before lunchtime and one a bit after, and the rain cleared away in the meantime, then that was OK.  It is interesting to read Charlie’s comments about the Crown Inn at Llandegla (being ‘frequented and immortalised’ by the revered cycling author – pen name ‘Wayfarer’, who happened to live in Merseyside and was thus a frequent visitor).

Many years later, when Charlie had become the very first Chairman of the Rough Stuff Fellowship in 1955, Charlie took the lead in raising monies and getting permissions to enable the RSF to erect a stone memorial in the Berwyn Hills in North Wales to commemorate ‘Wayfarers’ favourite rough stuff crossing, known to all followers in his article titled ‘Over the Top’.  Fame for all, it is marked on Ordnance Survey Maps.