The Zoller and Fyfe Awards and the Melrose Shield
The Edward Zoller Memorial Trophy
The Edward Zoller Memorial Trophy is a pewter Quaich presented to the Lothians DA in 1997 by Anne Hutcheson (nee Zoller) in memory of her father’s love of and life-long service to the Lothians District Association (DA).
It is now awarded annually to any member of the CTC Edinburgh Lothians and Borders Member Group who has given their time and skills in the service of the group, either in an official or non-official capacity.
The committee has adopted the convention that eligibility for the award should be restricted to group members who are not current committee members and who have not previously received it.
The award does require that nominations, with supporting testimonials are made to the committee each autumn.
It has since been awarded to:-
1997 Brian P Curtis
1998 Don Johnson
1999 Jack Murdoch
2000 Audrey Fyfe
2001 Mike Harrison
2002 Jimmy Murray
2003 Peter Martin
2004 Finlay Cairns
2005 Anne Carter
2006 Mike Harrison
2007 Richard Russell
2009 Neil and Norma Brearley
2010 Jim Kerray
2011 Marion Lawson
2012 George Di Ponio
2013 Evelyn Law
2014 Bill Coppock
2015 Duncan Ross
2016 Philip Rankin
2017 Maureen Young
2018 Peter Valente
2019 Liz Sutherland
2020 Not awarded
2021 Barbara Darcy
2022 Clare McDonald
2023 Janet Ironside
2024 Cathy Riley
The Audrey Fyfe Memorial Award
The Audrey Fyfe memorial award is made to any member of the Group who has selflessly nurtured and encouraged novice riders in Member Group rides, also either in an official or unofficial capacity.
The committee has adopted the convention that eligibility for the award should be restricted to group members who are not current committee members and who have not previously received it.
The award does require that nominations, with supporting testimonials are made to the committee each autumn.
It has since been awarded to:-
2012 David Stokes
2013 Not awarded
2014 Goff Cantley
2015 Liz Sutherland
2016 Judy Cantley
2017 Gordon Robertson
2018 Marian Rogers
2019 Alastair Sim
2020 Not awarded
2021 Cathy Riley
2022 Fiona Owen
2023 Linda Hamilton
2024 Clare McDonald
CTC Best Cycling Photograph of the Year Plaque
1962 W. Nimmo
1963 A. B. McIntosh
1964 A. Ryalls
1965 L. Douglas
1966 A. B. McIntosh
1967 L. Douglas
1968 A. B. McIntosh
1969 J. Law
1970 J. Law
1971 J. Law
1973 M. Gardiner
1973 R. Melrose
1975 L. Douglas
1977 M. Johnson
1981 R. Lunn
1984 D. Lambie
1997 H. Horne
1998 D. Jack
2000 J. Howlett
2001 E. Law
2002 F. Cairns
2003 G. Melrose
2004 F. Cairns
2005 M. Harrison
2006 G. Di Ponio
2007 N. Robertson
2008 B. Darcy
2009 Liz Sutherland
2010 Marion A. Lawson
2011 Caroline Parr
2012 Caroline Parr
2013 Liz Sutherland
2014 Dave Stokes
2015 David Lambie
2016 David Stokes
2017 Les Westhead
2018 Eileen Holttum
2019 Cathy Riley
2021 Janet Ironside
2022 Debbie Barr
2023 Sandy Paterson
2024 Derek Traynor
The Melrose Shield
This shield was originally presented to a member of the CTC who had given eminent service to the Lothians DA. The Centrepiece is the crest of the Ettrick and Lauderdale District of the Borders Region which was presented to the CTC at the 1980 Melrose Birthday Rides.
The shield was presented between 1980 and 2000 after which it disappeared from circulation. In 2023 it came to light again! The trophy will now be presented to any members(s) of the club who has given eminent service in the organisation of special events outwith our routine programme of rides.
Previous recipients:
1980 W. Nelson
1987 Eric S. Robertson
1997 Douglas and Jean Napier
1997 Robert and Jean Jeffrey
2000 John Martin
2023 Rosanne Murphy
2024 Ben Bate
Edward Zoller was one of the six people who started ERC in 1925. He was the leading light of the breakaways. He was an insurance agent with W.G.M. Oliver, Solicitor and Insurance Agent and was at one time secretary of the C.T.C. Lothians D.A., and before that of the Edinburgh Amateur Bicycle Club. Zoller didn’t do a great deal of racing himself – he just rode 10s and 25s. He was a low gear specialist , riding 76″ at the very most. We had a number of low gear races at the start of the season in those days.
Edward Zoller was a tall, lean man with a mop of white hair, and was known widely as “Mr. Cycling”. His life to a great extent was dedicated to cycling; he wrote frequently to the press on cycling matters, and on occasions his views would excite controversy. He was the secretary of ERC for about twenty years until about 1970. He’d been a official of ERC since 1925. He was a leading light in keeping the club together, and keeping it going. He was made an honorary life member of the CTC. He rode into his nineties, and on the day he died, aged 92, in the early 1990s he had just taken delivery of a new wheel from Robin Williamson. He rode up and down the street outside his home to try it out.
Zoller was an RRA (Roads Record Association) observer from his early days and he followed nearly all the record attempts on Scottish roads. He was a man of principle, and he enforced the rules strictly, which caused a few controversies. One of the earliest record attempts by a professional was in about 1930, from Land’s End to John o’ Groats. Zoller organised a boat to take him across the Forth – that was before the bridge was built – to go from Granton to Burntisland, but the rider never turned up. He had abandoned, but Zoller still had to pay for the boat! Zoller wrote to the rider to complain about being let down, and the rider sent the bike he’d used for his record attempt to Zoller as compensation!
Audrey Fyfe was an inspirational member of the Lothians and Borders Cyclists Touring Club from the early 1950s. She held positions of Social Secretary and Chairman and was awarded the Edward Zoller Trophy for services to the club in the year 2000. She was from a cycling family; husband Ian and daughters Aileen and Linda were all regular riders with the club at one time.
She is remembered for her selfless support of new or weaker riders and had a reputation for sorting things out and putting others before herself. She was the life and soul of a party but never sought the limelight. She would chat to everyone and often did this without difficulty on the steepest of hills!
Audrey was a regular at Birthday Rides (to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the CTC) and helped organise rides to Melrose in 1980 and Haddington in 1987. She joined in all the New Year meets which were often a few days away at Melrose or Pitlochry.
Audrey was extremely hospitable and often welcomed the club ride back to the house for home baking and coffee to sustain them on the last leg home and regularly provided haggis, neeps and tatties for the Burns Suppers.
At AGMs, she was very sensible and measured in her comments. A CTC councillor from the 1990s recalls she was not backward at voicing her opinions which he valued and respected.
Tragically Audrey died in a road accident in 2011. Her family donated this award in her memory.
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