Admitting he was strapped for cash, and quite unable to afford a traditional touring holiday, Charlie’s parents came to the rescue, and suggested he base himself in Scarborough at their holiday ‘digs’.  The price to be paid however, was to be accompanied all the way there and back by his Dad on a two stroke motorcycle. (For the record, Charlie’s younger brother Norman, and their Mother, must have travelled to Scarborough by train, as they appear in the narrative later, plus Norman also obviously has a motor bike licence.) This arrangement was very humorous in that his Dad had all sorts of problems en route, as you will read.  Charlie’s artistic skills are much to the fore by 1924, and we are getting more and more illustrations woven into the text of his Journals.

As they passed through York I thought it was just too much to resist this fine shot of the Minster.