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The Remarkable Captain Barclay
Captain Robert Barclay Allardice, known simply as Captain Barclay, was one of Britain’s earliest sporting heroes. Born in Stonehaven in 1779, one of eight children, he was immensely strong, his party piece being to lift an eighteen-stone man standing upon the palm of his hand from the floor to the dinner table. He even found time to set up a distillery, the Glendury Distillery, on the north bank…
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Pedestrianism
The Olympic Games offers a quadrennial opportunity to shine the spotlight on some sports that would otherwise languish in obscurity. One such is race walking, which made its first appearance in the 1904 Games with a half-mile race that was part of the early forerunner of the decathlon, the ten-event “all round championship”. In Paris there will be events over 20 kilometres for both men and women…
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