The Fridays London Ride - Windows and Death - 29th December

[slowmotion]

I think Martin had the same idea as I , that it would be easier to find who ordered the Beef and Camembert in amongst all of the beefburgers. Not helped by me ordering the same, at the same time, on the same table.

Excellent choice. It did taste simply clogtastic, didn't it?

 

[clarion]

Finally got round to uploading some photos

 

[clarion]

More here:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/Fridays Christmas 2012/

 

[Mice]

Fab photos Clarion! I wondered if we could add this to the album - my how the Met Police have moved forward, way ahead of The West Midlands Police!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-20717022

So sorry you couldnt be there CharlieB - you were definitely on the list of peeps who was missed (and not just by those who were Pi&&ed!)

Happy New Year to you

Mice

 

[mmmmartin]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-20717022

is that a young dellzeqq on the right in tha first photograph?

 

[ianmac62]

Sorry it has taken me so long to get around to expressing my appreciation of Saturday's ride. Many thanks to DZ!

Now there's a silly footnote and a serious footnote. First the silly one: when the Marx Memorial Library was short of cash, it sold key-rings:

And mugs:

and, of course, busts:

 

[slowmotion]

Were the mugs as boldly-priced as the hallowed lino? OK, He didn't bring them to his lips but I'll bet they didn't come cheap.

 

[ianmac62]

Footnote 2 is slightly more serious in that the Marx Memorial Library and Philip Webb's terraced workshops and dwellings in Worship Street are closely connected through a bust:

This is a bust of William Morris which is in the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow:

Morris was the close friend of Webb. Compare Webb's work at Worship Street and Red House (Morris's first house with Jane Burden after their marriage):

and

Now, when Lenin sought the Twentieth Century Press's help in printing Iskra, that Press - an offshoot of the Social Democratic Federation - had rented 37a Clerkenwell Green (now the Marx Memorial Library) and William Morris had stood as guarantor!

One more connection: the motto of the Clarion Cycling Club - "Fellowship Is Life" - is another of William Morris's declarations!

 

[ianmac62]

Were the mugs as boldly-priced as the hallowed lino? OK, He didn't bring them to his lips but I'll bet they didn't come cheap.

You wouldn't expect a Marxist to drink out of anything less than bone china, would you? So I paid £8.95 for mine back in 1998 or 1999.

If you thought the frontage of the Library looking remarkably well preserved, then you should know that it was restored with lottery/millennium funding.

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

You wouldn't expect a Marxist to drink out of anything less than bone china, would you? So I paid £8.95 for mine back in 1998 or 1999.

If you thought the frontage of the Library looking remarkably well preserved, then you should know that it was restored with lottery/millennium funding.

The linoleum funding wore out quickly?

 

[slowmotion]

You wouldn't expect a Marxist to drink out of anything less than bone china, would you? So I paid £8.95 for mine back in 1998 or 1999.

If you thought the frontage of the Library looking remarkably well preserved, then you should know that it was restored with lottery/millennium funding.

I'm surprised they didn't flog Lenin champagne flutes....

 

[dellzeqq]

Worship Street and the Red House are acknowledged by Architects with a capital A to be a step along the road from the formality of the late Baroque to Modernism. What they don't always acknowledge is that they are a significant step along the road to the dominant building type in modern day London - the three bedroom semi.

 

[mmmmartin]

Will this constant stream of Architectural Information continue as we pedal around Normandy in June? I do hope so.

 

[Davywalnuts]

Some great photos from that day, I dont even remember posing for them...

But yes, nice lil ride and catch up with everyone and so thank you Dell & IanMac for the tour and info and everyone for the great company.

And am now on a diet and the way I am looking in photos is shocking! I swear my bikes look tiny when am on them.. Am only little you know..

 

[martint235]

As in like a little gorilla?