Meike Turnbull retired from her post as Anerley President in 2025. here she remembers how a men-only club finally bowed to the pressures of modernity and allowed females to become actual members… I first “joined” the Anerley Bicycle Club in
Horace Wilton (Sammy) Bartleet
Sammy Bartleet was an Anerley member for 40 years. A renowned cycling journalist, author, amateur racer, inventor and collector, he also published a cycling classic ‘Bartleets Bicycle Book’ in 1931 which covered cycling history. Among Bartleet’s inventions were a golf
New Kit 2025
As of 2025 we updated our kit and it looks fabulous. We are now using brighter colours and we changed our kit supplier too and now have improved materials and a better cut (depending on your shape!). There has been
The book about the early years – Some Notes about the Anerley BC
When the club celebrated its 50th Anniversary (back in 1931), ex president G H Smith wrote a book about the early years. This is a copy of that book in digital form.
1939 to 1945 – Through the Eyes of a War Baby
After the slaughter of the trench warfare during the First World War, every little village in the country has a memorial to remember their young men who never came home. The Purley War Memorial Hospital was built to serve this
The End of the Golden Era
The Jan 1914 Gazette had a write up of the Christmas Ride (actually on Boxing Day 1913) to the Anchor Inn on the Portsmouth Road at Ripley. Organised by Club Captain Calder, mainly for the young bloods in the Anerley,