A former Nowra resident is hoping to track down twenty years of precious memories tied up in a scrapbook.
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Cycling great John McLean kept photographs, newspaper clippings and more in his scrapbook, spanning the length of his cycling history.
His mother started covering John’s cycling achievements in the scrapbook, before later handing the reins on to his wife, Diane McLean.
The couple moved from Nowra to Bundaberg in the late 1970s and after some years, realised the scrapbook hadn’t made the journey with them.
Now aged 76, John would love to track down the scrapbook.
“I’m getting older now and it would be be nice to pass it to the grand kids,” he said.
John said the book weighs several kilograms and would be hard to miss.
“It’s not your standard exercise book. It was quite a big book about 50 centimetres long by 30 centimetres wide and probably 15 centimetres deep and hard covered so it wouldn’t be missed easily if someone saw it,” he said.
Diane and John have tried contacting the owners of their Bomaderry home, to no avail.
“We want to make a last ditch effort to find it. It would mean a lot to John,” Diane said.
John was inducted into the Shoalhaven Sportin Hall of Fame in 2014 and wrote a column, ‘Cycle Circles’, in the South Coast Register for many years.
If you can help bring this scrapbook home, contact Diane and John on bikekwik@bigpond.com
