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BRITISH CYCLING MUSEUM Our Museum, the nation's foremost museum of cycling history, is housed in an old Victorian Railway Station. It opened for the first time to the public on the April 17th, 1992 following years of amassing cycling memorabilia as a hobby; over 400 examples of cycles; old cycle repair workshop; over 1000 cycling medals, fobs and badges from 1881; extensive library of books; the first cycle oil lamp and window displays of gas, candle, battery and oil lighting; gallery of framed cycling pictures; displays of ceramic cycling items and models of cycling; a history of cycling from 1818.
John & Sue Middleton, British Cycling Museum, The Old Station, Camelford, Cornwall PL32 9TZ fax: 01840 212811 tel: 01840 212811 email:
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[[Flooding]] of August 16th, 2004
In the worst flooding in the area for fifty years, Tintagel andCamelford were inundated by torrential rain and parts of Bude were reported to be submerged in up to six feet of water as a normal month's rainfall fell in only two hours. Nearby Boscastle was devastated as up to three feet of water rushed through the coombe at up to 40 miles per hour and the Bude and Port Isaac lifeboats were called out to assist in the recue which involved seven helicopters.
The floods hit Boscastle almost exactly 52 years to the day after floods swept through Lynmouth, in Devon, killing 12 people.
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