1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession

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1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession

1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession

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Part memoir and part travelogue, this Roger Deakin award-winning book is also a paean to the magic and mystery of the coastline surrounding Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The film was so fragile that it couldn't be watched until Ned could find someone who could copy it without destroying the old nitrate film. This manic on-this-day-in-history ‘Not The 1923 Tour’ strand takes up a large part of 1923 and when you join the dots – see the pattern!

It starts about 150 kilometres and six hours into the stage, still another 260 or so kilometres and more than nine hours of racing to go.I particularly enjoyed the photo of the Belgian window view that occupied 10 days on twitter timeline being brought to life once more.

In this engaging melange of sports writing, history, travelogue and detective story, ITV's head cycling commentator and author of On the Road Bike explores a short piece of film footage from the 1923 Tour de France and shares his fascinating investigations into the riders featured. In fact, it closed on its opening night, and it would be a long time before it was performed again, except by puppeteers. I am grateful to Ned for taking the time and trouble to open up a window to a much earlier time in the TDF and for telling the story in both detail where available and within the much wider context of the world and people around them. It was a joy to read, dipping in and out as Ned pursued his determination to learn more about his obscure protagonist.When the story does get back to Beeckman, as it does occasionally, I am left wondering how reliable a narrator Boulting really is. Ned set about learning everything he could about the sequence – studying each frame, face and building – until he had squeezed the meaning from it.

Along the way, Boulting encountered suspicion, incredulity, teeth (canine, bared not bloodied), contracted covid and fought off frustration and the disappointment blues.An education in the effects of War (post and looming,) in a particular society (time and place) and how life reboots and copes. If Boulting even mentioned the Petit Tour in 1923 – or, for that matter, the Critérium des Aiglons – I must have missed it. But this was an obscure time of the Tour and there was little documentation with which to compare the film.



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