J F Wilson of City Rd info/memories sought

[220 City Rd]

Hi yes, still building frames using the proper stuff, built my first frame on my own at 19, Jim kept an eye on me even so, he was pleased with the end result...it took 5 years though to get that approval!...and i raced on it for years...

 

http://www.wilsoncycles.co.uk/shop/double_diamond.php

 

Don't recall Thomson mentioned but there was a lot going off...i remember Pewitt cafe though, like something out of a dream scape, a little shack out there near the top of Owlar Bar....10p for a cup of tea and a penguin buscuit...that was the first step to Derbyshire for a young lad or lass riding a bike from Sheffield...

 

the mobile phone media culture & its society...would never be able to relate to that lifestyle...happily for me they can't harm that memory..

 

there's a grand house there now with its own stables and clock tower marking the spot of little Pewitt cafe...the new mansion is probably owned by some media mogul....who no doubt will be miserable enough in their collective ignorance ; )...today's society has lost a lot of its real gems for fake ones...and what they don't know of, is infact hurting them.

[rabitter]

timbuck

some names bring back memories.late 50s i used to ride with sheffield phoenix and on wednesday night in wharncliffe hotel firth park they used to have cycle racing on rollers great night.one guy who nobody could beat was ron coe,and after the races he would cycle home to barnsley

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timbuck

some names bring back memories.late 50s i used to ride with sheffield phoenix and on wednesday night in wharncliffe hotel firth park they used to have cycle racing on rollers great night.one guy who nobody could beat was ron coe,and after the races he would cycle home to barnsley

Most lads in those days would ride out to an event with there best wheels strapped on the bike some how, they would then ride a fifty or sixty mile race and have to cycle another 20, or 30 miles back home.

And on Monday back to work by bike of course.

[escort1]

Both my late gran and Mother used to come to your mum's hair shop upstairs like you say via the cycle shop. Think someone once told me your Dad used to either roadie / manage or both local groups in the 60's. I remember a couple of guitar amplifiers Vox 30's ? in the back of the cycle shop for many years.

The bread shop next door was Mrs Beebee and Havenhands, Shelia and her mum kept the hardware shop with the parrifin machine outside, then next door was Bowdlers shoe shop, paper and toy shop, Malcolm the bucther, Fisher's fruit shop, Harry Smails sweet shop, further down Rolfes bread shop, Jack Wild's buthcers, wool shop, ladies and gents hairdressers, Audrey Hobson had the ladies, Wagstaff's fruit and veg shop who used to deliver by horse and cart, Ned was the delivery guy and Smith's bread shop - now the sandwich shop which before today's supermarkets had massive ques outside on a Saturday morning for its bread, bacon etc.

[220 City Rd]

Hi, Peter Underwood has asked permission to put your story of Syd with the stolen rusty frame on his site http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/

 

Peter does this for the love of it and is a none profit making site...also he asked for your name if you don't mind?

 

Regards

[220 City Rd]

Hi, Peter Underwood has asked permission to put your story of Jim and the leather shoes on his site http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/

 

Peter does this for the love of it and is a none profit making site...also he asked for your name if you don't mind?

 

Regards

 

Nigel

[neepsendlane]

Hi, Peter Underwood has asked permission to put your story of Syd with the stolen rusty frame on his site http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/

 

Peter does this for the love of it and is a none profit making site...also he asked for your name if you don't mind?

 

Regards

Please use the story P M me if you would like to know more.Cheers

[Guest]

Hi, Peter Underwood has asked permission to put your story of Jim and the leather shoes on his site http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/

 

Peter does this for the love of it and is a none profit making site...also he asked for your name if you don't mind?

 

Regards

 

Nigel

Would be proud to contribute cheers. pm me if you need info.

[Blackburnrod]

Re Thompson cycles of Heeley.In 1955 I had a JRJ (BobJackson) frame in which the front wheel would go in lopsided.Thompson investigated it for me and found one fork blade was 1/8th inch longer than the other,and corrected it by filing the slot in the longer fork blade deeper.The frame was a show model from the York Rally and was supplied through Henry Holmes of Sharrowvale Rd.It was copper plated,polished and finished with a red translucent varnish which was not very robust.

I raced against Sid and Jim in the 50s and again against Sid only 3 years ago in the VTTA 25 Champs.In the early days I was in the Sheffield Sports CC..

[Borninthe40s]

Hi, i can tell you all you'll ever want to know about J.F.Wilson Cycles...when i have posted 5 post on the sheffield forum i can then post messages & replies with links to some of my sites with my father and his teams etc..on

 

All the Best

 

Nigel Wilson

 

I'm DELIGHTED to hear that J F Wilson is still a going conern!

 

The names Jim, Syd and Ron Coe are a real 'blast from the past' for me.......

 

Back in the 60's, I was in the Beighton Wheelers and used to time trial most sunday mornings..... what got me into that was spending my Saturday Afternoons in Jim's shop, but he did eventually build two frames for me!

 

The first one I wrote off when I hit the back of a Triumph Dolomite with my head down, (putting myself in hospital in the process) the other I still have...... sadly, it's outside looking a bit the worse for wear. I've resisted my wife's attempts to dump it though! It still has all the original Campagnolo hubs, brakes, seat stem, gears etc etc.......

 

All the best to you Nigel!