England : London 7 April: The Death of the Sunday London Ride

[Salty seadog]

Well, the Beeb is forecasting 15 degrees and dry for Sunday. Shorts it is then.

Not the short shorts......could be a blessing this knee injury.

 

[Blue Hills]

Well, the Beeb is forecasting 15 degrees and dry for Sunday. Shorts it is then.

esteemed old ctc folks I used to ride with reckoned longs below 11 and it will be cooler earlier - off to an arty thing straight afterwards so I think I may compromise and come in the M&S chinos.

end of fashion report.

 

[samsbike]

Sorry RB. I can’t make this as well.

Not going as well as I hoped after my interface with tarmac this week (SVI and all my fault)

 

[rb58]

Sorry RB. I can’t make this as well.

Not going as well as I hoped after my interface with tarmac this week (SVI and all my fault)

Ouch. GWS and see you on a future ride.

 

[sagefly]

Shorts today and with the improving weather shorts tomorrow too.

 

[Blue Hills]

sorry folks something cropped up so can't make it.

Have a great ride - am sure you will.

 

[rb58]

Excellent ride today @Trickedem . Thanks for all the route prep and leading. Timing was impeccable, and we (mostly) dodged the rain. The chips at Ally Pally were excellent.

I hope everyone got home okay and I look forward to seeing you on the next rides - a longer ride to Brooklands on 28th April, and a ghost signs tour on 5th May.

 

[Nick Saddlesore]

I'm still waiting for my chips.

 

[rb58]

I'm still waiting for my chips.

Nick’s nicked chips. I blame @sagefly.

 

[sagefly]

Nick’s nicked chips. I blame @sagefly.

@rb58 so wrong to accuse an accomplice.

 

[Trickedem]

Thanks everyone, for a great ride.
Here are the places we visited, with some links to read more.

Sir Joseph Bazalgette The architect of the modern sewage system.
Hungerford Bridge WC2N 5AQ

Postman’s Park EC1A 7BT
A tribute to heroic self sacrafice.


Tower Hill EC3N 4AA
Lord Lovat. Stand collapse 1747 20 dead. Last execution on Tower Hill.
Josef Jakobs. German Spy 1941 Firing squad. Double Cross operation. Court Martialled
36,087 merchant seamen from both world wars who have no known grave.

Peabody Trust Shadwell

John Fisher Street E1 8HB

66 residents and 12 visitors. Large families.


Israel Lipski The acid murderer

16 Batty Street, E1 1RL

Jack the Ripper's 1st victim Mary Ann Nichols

53-49 Durward St, London E1 5BA
Mary Ann Nichols' body was discovered at about 3:40 a.m. on Friday 31 August 1888 in Buck's Row (now Durward Street), Whitechapel. The throat was severed by two cuts, and the lower part of the abdomen was partly ripped open by a deep, jagged wound. Several other incisions on the abdomen were caused by the same knife. She had was 43 years old and had 5 children. She had been working as a prostitute.

The Blind Beggar
337 Whitechapel Rd, E1 1BU
Ronnie Kray's murder of George Cornell

Bethnal Green Tube Crush Memorial
E2 0ET
Biggest single loss of civilian life in WW2.

97 Evering Road flat Oct 67
N16 7SJ
Jack the Hat McVitie (a Kray hitman) Who had failed to kill the Kray’s financial advisor was lured to a supposed party and murdered by Reggie Kray

The fly paper murders
63 Tollington Park, N4 3QW

Chung Ling Soo’s Death
Wood Green Empire
7 Cheapside High Road, Wood Green, London

 

[Blue Hills]

Sounds like a great ride with some interesting stops, pity I missed it.

Thanks for the links.

 

[Trickedem]

And here is the group, with Ally Pally in the background

 

[jiberjaber]

Sorry I couldn't make this in the end - looks like it was a good interesting ride!