From: "Joe King" <joeking@fastmail.fm>
To: Hughethornton@aol.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
References: <406.194adf09.32616a4c@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Viking Severn Valley Name
In-Reply-To: <406.194adf09.32616a4c@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:48:56 +0100
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Hugh,
This is what I was always told. In 1950 the year before the First Daily
Express Tour of Britain the Sporting Record (newspaper) extended the
Brighton to Glasgow to severn stages and this is when Viking named the
Severn Valleys.
Croeso Cymru Joe King Nr. Maenaddwyn Ynys Mon Wales