Ceremonial object - Sash, City of Camberwell A.C.C. Track Championship cycling sash, 1939

Historical information

Champion's sash from 1939 awarded to competitive cyclist Jack Stanley Robinson. Jack Stanley Robsinson lived in Canterbury for most of his youth and was a member of the City of Camberwell Amateur Cycling Club in the late 1930s.
Jack appears in the press (NLA Trove) as a member of the Malvern cycling team in a March 1934 trial competition of “boys”, and then with increasing frequency in amateur competitions throughout 1935 to 1938. In October 1938 he appears in the Camberwell team. The last entry so far found is in December 1939, still with the Camberwell team.

Physical description

Blue sash with gold tassels

Inscriptions & markings

'City of Camberwell A.C.C. Track Championship 1939 Won by J. Robinson'

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