1/3/2024 0 Comments The clarionThe census shows that he worked in Sheffield’s metalworking industries. GHB Ward was born in Sheffield and lived on Cricket Inn Road with his parents and sister, and then with his wife and three children. In this Friends First, we wanted to share with you the story of GHB Ward’s life, his work and some of the fascinating objects selected for display. We are currently working on a new display for the Sheffield Life and Times gallery at Weston Park Museum which will celebrate Ward, the Club, and the campaign for access to the countryside. Here’s Curator of Social history, Clara Morgan, with a special preview of what’ll you’ll see:īack in 2018, as part of the Protest and Activism project, Museums Sheffield was lucky enough to acquire an important collection belonging to George Herbert Bridges Ward (1876-1957), the founder of the Sheffield Clarion Ramblers Club. Later this year we’ll be creating a new display at Weston Park Museum focusing on George Herbert Bridges, countryside campaigner and the founder of the Sheffield Clarion Ramblers Club. Jack Jordan and GHB Ward (right) in the 1950s Proud! Telling LGBT+ stories in Sheffield.Going Public: International Art Collectors in Sheffield.Collecting experiences of the Coronavirus pandemic in Sheffield.Summer family fun at Sheffield Museums!.Download a PDF of our current What's On guide.We’re trying new things all the time and we want you to try them too, so come with us and we’ll help connect you with art, nature, history, ideas - and each other. National Clarion Cycling Club 1895 stands firmly by the Clarion motto of old: ' Socialism the Hope of the World', the Socialist Ten Commandments and the fight for a new society with Love as its Law and Justice its Foundation.Trying something new can be a little bit scary, but what a great feeling when you make the connection. Our aims can be summarised as cycling, fun and fellowship so that the fight to achieve the fairer society sought by our founders is never forgotten. Whilst we do not levy a charge for association, we would ask that subscribing Clubs make a donation of c.£10 per year to go towards our administrative costs. An email with details of relevant events is circulated to our Club contacts periodically. We try to foster at least one meet each year so that the various members of the Association Clubs can come together as well as various other inter-Club activities. The Association does not organise activities in its own right rather it assists Clubs in organising events to which other Club’s members are invited be they regional, national or international. The National Clarion Cycling Club 1895 does not offer individual membership nor does it retain any individual’s information. We do not provide insurance either. The National Clarion Cycling Club 1895 is an Association of Clarion Cycling Clubs which serves as a means of communication and coordination of activities to support and advise Clarion Cycling Clubs formed in any town, district or country and to encourage further Clubs to be established. Unlike other cycling clubs, from their formation all Clarion Cycling Clubs welcomed women members. ‘for the purposes of Socialist propaganda and for promoting inter-Club runs between the Clubs of different towns.’Įach Clarion Cycling Club was to be responsible for its structure, rules, subscriptions and badges. On Easter Sunday 1895 Clarion cyclists came together at Ashbourne and resolved to form an Association of the newly formed Clarion Cycling Clubs: In time they were founded throughout the land and indeed the world. These principles were based on the Socialist Ten Commandments that were taught in the Socialist Sunday Schools.Īfter an account of an Easter Tour by the Birmingham Clarion Cycling Club, other readers took the initiative to form their own Clubs whilst the paper called for these to be established far and wide. “Combine the pleasures of cycling with the propaganda of Socialism” Initially they called their Club, the Socialists' Cycling Club but quickly re-named it the Clarion Cycling Club after 'The Clarion', their favourite weekly newspaper, edited by the Socialist campaigner Robert Blatchford. Their leader, Tom Groom, was also a member of the Marxist Social Democratic Federation. The Clarion Cycling Club was founded in 1894 by six young men who were members of the Bond Street Labour Church on Constitution Hill in Birmingham.
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