It was during the Whitsun weekend of 1935 that Denton Welch, 20 years old and a student at Goldsmiths' School of Art, decided to bicycle from his home in Greenwich to near Reigate to visit relations. Having pedalled through Croydon and onto the Brighton Road, he was hit by a car which failed to stop, leaving him lying on the tarmac with terrible injuries. After several months in hospital, Denton recovered sufficiently to return to his writing and painting, but he remained a chronic invalid and died 13 years later at the age of 33.
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