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Eileen Sheridan – A Tribute from the Pedal Club
The Pedal Club will not attempt its own Eileen obituary – there are so many others we are completely out gunned; even The Sun which rarely takes any interest in cycling has mentioned her passing. All the same, the club would like to mention our experience of this great lady.
Eileen formally became a Pedal Club member only relatively recently, because the club was a little slow to realise the benefit of having women members. However, she was such a frequent guest at the club from the nineteen fifties onwards that she was really de facto the first woman member.
Her sporting achievements are familiar to everyone with an interest in our sport, what will not be so obvious to those who had not met Eileen was her personal charm. It was as though she had an inexhaustible supply of fairy dust which attracted everyone around her, both men and women. It was a force so strong that it could even work down a telephone line, and was undiminished by age, so that even in her nineties she could leave a deep impression on new acquaintances.
No one can live forever, but we hoped we would never hear this news.