Sheffield Clarion Ramblers

The Sheffield Clarion Ramblers was a rambling club founded by G. H. B. Ward in Sheffield in 1900. It was one of many clubs and societies inspired by the popular socialist newspaper, ''The Clarion''. Its first ramble was in the Peak District around Edale on Sunday, 2 September 1900 with fourteen people from Sheffield. By the early 1920s the club were claiming to be the "largest and most influential Rambling Club in the British Isles". Provided by Wikipedia