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Mar 9, 2020 · Courageous, inspiring, pioneering – just some of the words used to describe the amazing Winifred Wells. To mark International Women’s Day earlier this week, we are taking a look at this...
Jan 20, 2022 · Winnie, Queen of the Desert | The Vintagent. January 20, 2022. | In Culture, ADV:Overland. | By Paul d'Orléans. W hen Winnifred Wells was 11 years old, she stood tall in her mother’s kitchen and declared she wanted a motorcycle.
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Winifred Wells was a courtier at the Stuart Restoration court as a Maid of Honour to Queen consort Catherine of Braganza. She was also one of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England. Samuel Pepys refers to her as the King's mistress in his diary, and she also features in Philibert de Gramont's famous Mémoirs. At the royal court
Winifred Wells, Australian Motorcycling Pioneer 5,504 miles, from Perth to Sydney and back, on a 350 Bullet. With this expedition, Winifred ‘Winnie’ Wells became the first woman to ride from one side of the Australian continent to another.
Winifred Wells. Vivacious 22-year-old Winifred Wells "had two characteristics uncommon amongst her sex". She liked to be alone and she loved to ride motorcycles. The daughter of a furniture manufacturer GF Wells, had been a motorcycle addict for many years, following in the steps of her father.
Aug 30, 2019 · Ready for the big trip: Winifred Wells outside her Perth home on Boxing Day, 1951. Solo back-to-back transcontinental rides put Winifred Wells on the map but her full circuit of Australia confirmed her eminence among our moto pioneers.
St Winefride's Well ( Welsh: Ffynnon Wenffrewi) is a holy well and national shrine located in the Welsh town of Holywell in Flintshire. The patron saint of the well, St Winefride, was a 7th-century Catholic martyr who according to legend was decapitated by a lustful prince and then miraculously restored to life.