I am grateful to Ian Futcher for furnishing us with this week's Bygone Salisbury.

Salisbury Motorcycle & Light Car Club host two motorcycle events in honour of riders with fascinating historical links to Salisbury.

The annual Mavro Motorcycle Run is in remembrance of Michel Noël (George) Mavrogordato (1903 1984). Educated at Cambridge in 1925 and certified as a pilot in 1930 he rose to the rank of Squadron Leader during WWII. In addition to flying his own aeroplanes, he restored vintage motorcars and drove in the 1939 Monte Carlo Rally.

He raced motorcycles between 1927 and 1952, winning a "Gold Star" at Brooklands and competed in the IOM TT eleven times reaching the first ever 70mph average speed lap.

"Mavro" moved to Downton, opening a Salisbury motorcycle showroom at St Thomas's Square and a workshop on Wilton Road from 1946 to 1956.

This year the Mavro Motorcycle Run starts from The Wyndham, Dinton at 11am on Sunday, September 24 in aid of the Salisbury Trust for the Homeless.

The Arbuthnot Trial is in memory of Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot (1864 1916), a Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy. As a member of the Motor Cycling Club, he kept his motorbike on board and engaged in long-distance endurance races.

In 1908, he came third in the single-cylinder class of the Isle of Man TT. An annual rally on the Isle of Man and a TT trophy for service members are named after him.

At the battle of Jutland, Arbuthnot went down with his ship and the Arbuthnot Trophy Trial was created in the Salisbury area to honour his memory until the 1930s. Sometime after, documents about the trial were discovered in an old barn and in 1982 the competition was resurrected following a similar route. This year there is a special checkpoint in Salisbury Market Square to mark its 100th anniversary on Sunday, September 3.