ON THIS DAY
1877: Motoring pioneer William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, was born in Worcester.
1881: The Savoy Theatre, the first public building to be lit by electricity, opened with a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience.
1886: The dinner jacket made its first appearance in public when it was worn by its creator at a ball at the Tuxedo Park Country Club, New York. 1903: Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst formed the Women’s Social and Political Union to fight for female emancipation in Britain. 1957: A major radiation leak was detected at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, after an accident three days earlier.
1975: After divorce in the early 1970s, followed by several reconciliations and separations, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor remarried in a remote village in Botswana. They divorced again the following year.
1: Police enforcing no cycling on the pavement near the Belgrave Flyover, in Leicester, in 2014.
2: Hinckley newspaper delivery boys lined up for the start of their cycle race in August 1951. About 40 lads took part in the three-and-a-half mile race. While taking part, the cyclists had to “deliver newspapers to selected houses” and were also judged on their “careful regard to the Highway Code”. The gentleman standing in front of the boys was Mr H Ewing and he was showing them the prizes, which consisted of a cricket bat and a cup.
3: The bike track at Ellesmere College opened in 2015. Pictured are, front, from left, William Hopkins, 15, Yaseen Issa, 15, Sophie Flay, 15, off-road cycling teacher Ben Rafferty, Jack Elms, 16, Ronan Gallagher, 15 and Isaac Price. Back, from left, Coun Elaine Halford, Ellsmere disability support worker Ashlea Smith, chairman of governors Steve White and outdoor learning assistant Denise Drinkwater.
4: First things first, or perhaps pursuit cyclist Beryl Burton was unaware of the Duke of Edinburgh’s nearness as she relaxed after winning her 3,000 metres pursuit round in the World Cycling Championships in Leicester in 1970.
5: In April, 2013, Claire Lomas was in training at Whitwell Leisure Park as she prepared to complete the equivalent of a marathon a day on a hand bike, as part of a charity challenge to cycle 400 miles around the UK.
6: We have no date for this picture of Alderman Newton’s Boys School’s cycling reliability competition. Pictured are Keith Robertson, James Moult, Peter Murphy, Philip Pratt, Robert Hall and Andrew Cowley.