Fred Woodhouse
Fred talks about cycling around Woking

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I got involved in cycling, and I love cycling and you could get to places I’d never been to and of course, there were no cars on the road by then. In fact I always remember coming the other way from Byfleet and there used to be thousands of people work at Vickers Armstrong at Byfleet and all the roads were covered in bikes all going one way and this one car came along and peeped its horn and there was so much abuse. 

But we were the kings of the road as you call it then, as cyclists, and we used to go out in cycle clubs and it was great. I mean, it was like camaraderie really because you were not allowed to pass the leader of the cycling. I belonged to the Charlotteville at Guildford then and if he was up the front and he’d be in plus fours mostly, probably a collar and tie, and you were not allowed to pass him, you just sat back in the ranks but you went to places. 

You went over Hindhead and down the other side, even to Portsmouth and places like this and it was cheap really. You had these little cafes and little places and you took stuff with you and you had feeding bottles and things like that, and that’s what we done with our time.