Safety Bicycle (Shire Library)

After teaching history for ten years, Ian Jones joined the staff of Harlow Museum as Education Assistant in 1974. After becoming Museum Officer in 1980, he became responsible for setting up the Mark Hall Cycle Museum to house the John Collins Collection of veteran cycles, which received a Civic Trust award in 1982. Aided by the detailed knowledge of John Collins, the curator at Mark Hall, the author developed his own considerable interest in the subject.