Carlton Reid

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Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Specialist journalist: WIRED.com and more. Press Gazette Transport Journalist of the Year 2018. Finalist: Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 https://authory.com/carltonreid Signal: carltonreid.67

Times story with female doctor in white coat standing in front of two wall paintings. The Billionaires' Vagina Club and the doctor behind it More women are seeking out intimate cosmetic tweakments. The doyenne of the global industry is Sally Greenwald, a gynaecologist who charges up to $10,000
Happy smiley Golden Retriever on green grassy hill. Tongue out. Wearing red rucksack harness.
Moody pic of Golden Retriever on hill. Wearing red rucksack harness.
Golden Retriever on hill with front paw pointing to ground. Wearing red rucksack
Head of Golden Retriever with tongue out and sorta smiling on green hill. Red harness on back.
Golden Retriever wearing red rucksack walking through grasses and wild flowers.
CINEMATOGRAPH EVIDENCE. A Paris correspondent states that the Velo, a paper devoted entirely to automobile news, puts forward a notion which, though highly ingenious, is hardly calculated to please readers. The idea is to the effect that policemen should be supplied with cameras working on cinematograph principles, to enable them to regulate the speed of motor cars and force drivers to respect the regulations. It is stated that a manufacturer has already submitted a machine of an extremely simple pattern to the Prefecture of Police. All that the policeman will have to do is to hide behind a tree or kiosque, and at the right moment press a button, when a series of twelve pictures will be instantly taken. British Journal of Photography, September 21, 1900.
Graphic showing period spectacles with tiny inlays over a dated magazine & edited extract. BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Dec 25, 1884 The “Microphotoscope." Robert Galland-Mason, of Douglas, Isle of Man. The microphotoscope consists of a pair of spectacles...with one or a number of minute photographs arranged in or along the rim ... The minute photographs are placed behind suitable minute magnifying glasses, and are so arranged in or along the rims of the spectacles that the eyes of the wearer may see either one or all of the photographs without moving the spectacles. The minute photographs may be photographs of written or printed matter, maps, charts, views, landscapes, or any object or group of from which a photograph may be taken. Some of the uses to which the “Microphotoscope" could be applied are the following : — For a Student. The series of microphotoraphs in the rim of the spectacles might consist of copies of an epitomised grammar, or any subject the student wished to study. Thus, the subject he was studying would be constantly before his eyes tor reference in his spare moments without the trouble of carrying books ... A lecturer might have the heads of his lectures photographed and placed in the rims of his spectacles ; a lawyer—his briefs; a clergyman—his sermons; a bicyclist, tricyclist, or other tourist—maps, views, and plans of the country through which he travelled ; a shopkeeper—a calendar ready-reckoner and so forth; travellers on the Continent—list of foreign terms, names and articles, foreign money, tables, and so on; a member of Parliament—facts and figures relating to the subject of his speech; a public entertainer—recitations, songs etc; a musician—whole pieces of music; a detective—criminals wanted.
Old photographh in black and white of old man with hair, no glasses and bow tie.
Line illustration next to a book quote. Victorian man with fancy mustache and bowler hat on 1869 boneshaker velocipede: The Bicycle. Text: We think that decided good will grow out of this invention. Riding the velocipede affords pleasurable excitement, which is what most men drink liquor for, and it leaves no sting behind. It takes men from the bar-rooms out into the pure air, into God's light and sunshine, and braces their lungs with the very breath of Heaven. It stimulates them to save what they would otherwise spend foolishly, that they may invest it in a machine which is a source of health and pleasure, as well as of utility. It is an inducement to young men who work in close apartments to spend more time in the open air, and furnishes them a means of healthful, invigorating, and, at the same time, pleasant exercise, such as nothing else can possibly afford.
Man in white t-shirt and black shorts walking on green grassy hill with vivid blue sky behind.
Bright blue sky. Grasses in foreground. Pond central. Bald white man with white t-shirt in distance on women-shaped hill. Northumberlandia sculpture, near Cramlington.
Tweet from Andy Burnham: Keir has given huge service to our country and I want to thank him for his leadership and dedication during such a challenging period. His decision marks the beginning of a transition and it is important that this process is conducted in an orderly and responsible way. I will….
Twat wearint blue blazer, red tie and pink trousers
Eight period playing cards from the Bicycle brand. Two Bicycle cover cards, a Queen and a Price/Jack, plus two cards featuring high wheelers in 1885 (first edition) and 1889. Two card backs feature whimsical cycling characters.
George Moore illustration of two suffragettes, one on bicycle, the other holding her bicycle, stopping an open-top car driven by a chauffeur with a well-dressed man sitting beside. text: "Suffragette cyclists hold up Mr. Winston Churchill by flinging themselves in front of his motorcar. This risky proceeding was carried out last week as a fresh development of militant tactics."
Wooden dandy horse bicycle sans pedals on white museum plinth held up by Perspex stand.
Barn with lit window with flowers in front at night with very starry sky with shooting stars.
Illustration of exterior of St Paul’s Cathedral with lots of cyclists outside and a priest officiating. Text: BLESSING OF THE BICYCLES THE INAUGURAL BLESSING OF THE BICYCLES A BRAND-NEW TRADITION AT ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL Date: Saturday, 13th June Time: 10:00 AM Location: Paternoster Square EC1A 7BA Entry: FREE! SPECIAL BONUS: RIDE THE CLOSED LOOP OF THE NOCTURNE ON THE DAY! REGISTER FOR FREE VIA EVENTBRITE LINK 13TH OF JUNE 2026
Large horizontal window in dark, people-free bar with sunset view of a medieval church in middle of modern buildings.
Glass roof above restaurant. People milling below.
Plates is hummus and tzatziki and whipped feta with DJ behind with red light backdrop.
Man walking in front of bar with lots of text behind lit from behind. Bar staff behind.
Foliage in front of lots of city buildings from above. Speaker on right. Cloudy but blue sky.
Queue of people waiting outside building with glass building opposite called The Gate.
Full length of Greggs embroidery on display behind barriers.
Cartoon illustration of man in spectacles and wearing brown apron riding on cargobike in front of Tyne bridge. Sack of flour by his feet, and box of eggs. Meant to look like Bayeux Tapestry. Has sausage rolls as motif in margins.
Word “LOOK” in chalk next to arrow down to stunning valley view not in focus. Golden Retriever looking.
Golden Retriever running through long grass mown with a grassy path. Trees behind.
Council worker in hi-vis sat on grass mowing machine cutting away with wild flowers and grasses in foreground.
Painted Lady butterfly on grass.
Wild flowers and grasses in focus on grassy slope with trees in background. Golden Retriever out of focus in upper middle of photo.
Golden Retriever standing on stone steps covering in pink petals. Rhododendron tree behind in dappled green canopy.
“Cycling was very much written out of history,” Reid says. “In the 1920s, you have Ford [Motor Company] paying literally millions of dollars for an advertising campaign...basically saying Ford started the movement for good roads... These are blatant lies.” As automobiles proliferated—Ford was producing about 2 million Model Ts a year by 1923, and the Model Ts price had fallen from $850 in 1908 to under $300—auto interests engineered a powerful funding mechanism: the gas tax. Beginning with Oregon in 1919, states passed laws earmarking fuel tax revenues for road construction. By 1929, all 48 states had done the same. Cyclists, meanwhile, were being systematically pushed off the roads their predecessors had fought to build. The American Automobile Association distributed free safety curricula to public schools warning children not to bicycle in the street, even as cities banned bikes from sidewalks. The bicycle, once the vehicle of wealthy reformers and seemingly the future of personal transportation, was already being rebranded as a child’s toy. Yet, Norton, Reid and other historians draw a direct line from the League of American Wheelmen to the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916, which first authorized federal money for road construction across state lines. It was signed into law by Woodrow Wilson, himself a devoted cyclist. The timing was not incidental. With World War I underway in Europe and American entry looking increasingly likely, the military’s need to move troops and materiel over land gave Congress an urgent, practical reason to act. This federal commitment was codified by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921, a key milestone that required every state to designate a connected system of “primary” highways, forming the skeletal structure of what would become the national highway network.
For over a century, automobile advertising has sold Americans a specific dream: the open road, the wind, the unencumbered self. Freedom. That promise, it turns out, was borrowed, and it was borrowed from bicycling. The first vehicle to deliver that sense of freedom was the bicycle, says Carlton Reid, a cycling journalist and historian whose book Roads Were Not Built for Cars traces the overlooked origins of America’s highway system. Before cars, before timetables-be-damned road trips, the bicycle was the first machine that let ordinary people go where they wanted, when they wanted, under their own power. No rail schedule, no horse to feed. Just themselves and the road. The winged logo of the League of American Wheelmen, the cycling organization that helped reshape American infrastructure in the 19th century, wasn’t decorative. It meant exactly what it looked like: flight. When automobiles eventually promised this same unencumbered movement, much of the infrastructure they required already existed. Between 1880 and 1900, the Good Roads Movement, led by an unlikely coalition of urban cyclists and rural postal workers, overhauled the country’s abysmal dirt paths into a coordinated network of paved streets. By the time motorists claimed the movement as their own, cyclists had already established the Office of Road Inquiry and laid important legislative groundwork for the National Highway System we use today. But as Reid notes, those highways carried the seeds of their own gridlock: “Cars are only useful when there’s a few of them. When there are millions and millions of them, their utility shrinks.” The open road, it turns out, was never meant for everyone.
Colourful poster featuring illustration of St Paul’s cathedral with lots of cyclists listening to a priest. Text: BLESSING OF THE BICYCLES THE INAUGURAL BLESSING OF THE BICYCLE A BRAND-NEW TRADITION AT ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL Date: Saturday, 13th June Time: 10:00 AM Location: Paternoster Square EC1A 7BA Entry: FREE! SPECIAL BONUS: RIDE THE CLOSED LOOP OF THE NOCTURNE ON THE DAY! REGISTER FOR FREE VIA EVENTBRITE LINK 13TH OF JUNE 2026 NOCTURNE
List of names including three Reverends.
1980s map of a dotted cycle route from Chelsea Bridge to Paddington Station. Ambassador cycle route logo is old-style ambassador on bicycle with plumed hat.
Handlebars of folding bike with bag on cycle track next to a main road. Lots of grass between road and adjacent footway.
The word "zygote" is hidden inside exactly 4 days of the week:TuesdayWednesday (contains both 'e' and 'd-a-y')FridaySaturday
how many days of the week have a pancake hidden in them? Exactly two days of the week have a "pancake" hidden inside them: Tuesday and Saturday.They both contain the letters p-a-n-c-a-k-e hidden perfectly inside their spelling:Tuesday = Tues d-ay (Rearranging the highlighted letters)Saturday = Saturd a y
There are 2 days of the week that have a "bicycle" (specifically, the word "bike") hidden inside their names:Tuesday Bike is spelled out directly as Tuesday if we look at the letters! Wait, let's look closer:Tuesday Bike is actually not in Tuesday. Let's check the letters of the days:SundayMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturdayActually, this is a classic riddle! There are exactly two days of the week that have a "bicycle" hidden inside them: Tuesday and Saturday, because they both have two wheels (the letter "o") in their names.
Happy Golden Retriever sitting under bridge with concrete Metro bridge behind and wall with graffiti to her left.
Nigel Farage has warned that Elon Musk’s support for Restore Britain could cost Reform UK the Makerfield by-election, after the tech billionaire backed the rival party on X yesterday. The claim is likely to intensify Farage’s bitter rivalry with Rupert Lowe,
Poster advert: Conserve gasoline. Don’t use any. Large petroleum pump with small bicyclist saying “ride on.”
Photo of old book cover. Three Men on the Bummel. Period illustration of German mountain scenery and 1890s cyclist and two men on tandem.
Photo of a black shirted man at a podium with Nazi-style banners beside him.
Strava screenshot for Josh Reid showing 199.99 mile ride. 17,556ft elevation gain and 16 hours 36 min. Bit of a map.
BBC story Man drives car into pedestrians in Italy, injuring eight.
Odd logo. Eagle on top of bunny ears. White oval.
Night time shot with dawn just about to rise behind three black peaks. Rock lit in foreground with white lights on heads of two hikers in middle of pic.
Sun rise over mountains with lakes below. Woman holding out arms on route up to a peak.
One man in cycle helmet gesticulates to man with buff around face and cap on green bike with basket.