Whilst at the Millennium Library in The Forum I discovered these advertisements of cycling photographs from the Norfolk Heritage Centre on their on-line site. After visiting the Archive collection before, I decided to visit it again to uncover more cycling documents from Norwich itself, hoping to find something similar to the British Pathé video. I loved seeing this photos because they represent to me memories of people's lives and you can see the personality of these people shining through. When I think of cycling I think of the modern bicycle, however with these I see a new side to the crafting of bicycles and I find it fascinating. I'm not too sure how I can develop from these images to create an active piece of work. I also found an archived book of The Amateur magazine which gave me monthly updates of how this cycling club was progressing. It gave me details of certain cycle runs, what certain members were participating in and some issues even had stories that their members had done. I think what I enjoyed reading the most out of these issues were the stories that were in some of them. I think this is because I find them like a little treat to read, it shows the personality of the person of who's it about and they weren't in every issue so to find one made it all the better. I know from researching on-line that the The Norwich Amateur Bicycle Club is still running and It's a possibility that I could contact them to provide 'stories' for my project. I absolutely adored this documentation of a father and sons bicycle journey from Norwich to Sunderland. It's these sort of accounts that interest me the most. I love how the memories of these two particular people are archived forever in this book and can be known to other people by it. I think this containing an account of a child's journey sort of connects with my survey when I was asking about cycling in their childhood. I think if I make my work active, I want it to be about childhood and be active for children, as they're my favourite target audience to work for.
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