Islington exhibition celebrates 50 years of cycling campaigns
In 1976, a pressure group was set up to campaign for better cycling provision within Islington, and 50 years later, they’ve got their own exhibition.It’s a fairly modest affair, just a couple of cases, but it’s quite fun to see the very early typewritten newsletters and pamphlets that were the norm for community groups in the 1970s.
And it turns out that it was also usual for a protest march to be preceded by a bagpiper back then.The exhibition notes that the campaign group too