The January edition of ‘Cycling World‘ (on sale at most W H Smith branches) has really done Charlie Chadwick proud.  A six page spread which includes reproducing Charlie’s entertaining story set in the Lake District titled ‘In Festive Mood’ describing a New Year We.R.7 break in Patterdale in 1928.

Quite apart from an informed review of our first Charlie Chadwick volume, there is a full page biography of Charlie including his nineteen fifties passport photograph in a very striking suit (also reproduced here), a mode of dress I would never associate with Charlie.

The New Year holiday at Patterdale reads just like the clubrun/hostel weekends I remember so well from my youth, and all the antics they get up to in just a few days in the Lakes makes very good reading.  That is Charlie’s gift to us – the ability to bring the past to life in a way that we can relate to.