Under the auspices of the Malvern Geographical Society, an illustrated lecture, to which the public were admitted without charge, was given at the Public Library, on Friday evening, by Mr. Alfred Watkins, of Hereford, Fellow and Progress Medallist of the Royal Photographic Society. His subject was “Early British Trackways.”
Dr. Jacob, who presided, said that Mr. Watkins had done a great deal of work in connection with Early British roads, and had embodied his researches in a volume which had created considerable interest. It was a very fascinating subject.
The lecturer said he was dealing with a prehistoric subject. He would give them the evidence he had found, and his deductions. They were going back to the time of a primitive people, in the Early Stone Age, a people which had not many wants, but who developed roads, or trackways, to get some of those wants supplied. That system of trackways lasted for a long while, but almost died out before records began to be made. Mr. Watkins proceeded to indicate the method by which the Early Britons formed trackways on the prinicple of straight lines, and dealt with the sighting points, artificial and natural, which he illustrated from photographs taken in various parts of the country. Once upon a time, he said, the way was “straight on.”
Mr. P. H. L’Estrange proposed a hearty vote of thanks to the lecturer, whose address was followed with great interest.
Source info: MS note by AW “Malvern Gazette Feb 23 1923 lecture Feb 16th”.
The text of this report is practically the same as that of cutting 94a.