Notebook – ‘Tours via Nevers, 1897’
Reference code
FOW/01/50
Title
Notebook – ‘Tours via Nevers, 1897’
Date
1897
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
1 volume
Scope and content
Diary of a cycling tour in Nevers and Tours, France (with notes on various locations en route e.g. Winchester, Chichester, Southampton, Paris). JTF describes (i) tours of Nevers (Cathedral, Church of St Etienne) and surrounding areas including Bourges; (ii) cycle between Nevers and Tours, via Orleans (Cathedral) and Blois (Chateau, Church of St Laumen); (iii) tours of Tours (Cathedral, Maison de Tristan, Castle of Plessis, Basilique Saint-Martin) and surrounding areas.
Includes:
* Notes of local customs, accommodation and food, as well as cycling routes and conditions;
* printed map of Nevers;
* drawings of stonework at Nevers Cathedral;
* photograph of the tomb of Saint Martin at the Basilique Saint Martin
Please note that this notebook includes some outdated offensive language.
Includes:
* Notes of local customs, accommodation and food, as well as cycling routes and conditions;
* printed map of Nevers;
* drawings of stonework at Nevers Cathedral;
* photograph of the tomb of Saint Martin at the Basilique Saint Martin
Please note that this notebook includes some outdated offensive language.
Creator
Fowler, Joseph Thomas (1833-1924), clergyman, Hebrew scholar and antiquary