two free sociable cycle rides Sat Sept 10th

[Sally Eva]

NOTE. You must register on Eventbrite so we can limit numbers, links below.

For next week (10th Sept) we will have 2 rides. Remember you should register on Eventbrite, details below. If you cannot make it, please cancel so that someone else can take the place. Even at the last minute it is worth cancelling (How to cancel).

Ride 1. Peckham to Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens < https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peckham-to-vauxhall-pleasure-gardens-cycle-ride-tickets-413760939107>

10am, Peckham Square (Peckham Library, Peckham Pulse Leisure Centre). Approx 2.5 hour, 14 km ride ending back at Peckham Square at 12.30pm. Really easy ride with lots of short breaks as well as a longer coffee break. Ride leader Bruce. Outward route starts with 2.5km of off road down the Canal Path and across Burgess Park. Then quiet streets and paths to Vauxhall Bridge via Kennington Park, the Beefeater Gin Distillery and the Pleasure Gardens. Having admired the river, return to the Pleasure Gardens for a coffee break at the Tea House Theatre. Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens had their heyday in the Regency period. Concerts were held there, including the first performance of Handel’s Water Music. The pleasure gardens also house the Lambeth City Farm.

Return route will include Lambeth Walk, inspiration for the song of that name in the 1937 musical Me and My Girl (watch this if you don’t know it,

). Last stretch will be across Geraldine Mary Handsworth Park (Imperial War Museum), then Elephant and Castle bypass and Cycleway 17 to Burgess Park. If time, we will make a small detour from Heygate St to have a look at Elephant Park, the new small park created as part of the E&C redevelopment. Route at https://bit.ly/3KToaIz

Ride 2. Dulwich to Beckenham Place Park. < https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dulwich-to-beckenham-place-park-southwark-healthy-cycle-ride-tickets-413756696417 >

10am to 12.30. Start/finish Dulwich Clock Café, in the middle of Dulwich Park. Jean and John leading. Head up to Peckham Rye and via LCN 22 to Ladywell Fields. Join the off-road Waterlink Way (National Route 21) and follow Ravensbourne and Pool Rivers to Lower Sydenham and on quiet streets to Beckenham Place Park. Brief stop at cafe. Return by different route initially (quiet streets, mostly Brookehouse Rd). Very short stretch of busy road at Catford where we rejoin the outward route at Ladywell Fields. Then follow outward route back to Dulwich Park. About 12 miles. Route map at https://bit.ly/2SOiQMs.

These rides are part of the Healthy Riders group, organised by Bruce Lynn on behalf of Southwark Cyclists https://southwarkcyclists.org.uk/. Like everything else we do, our activities are all free. We co-operate with other London Cycling Campaign groups like Greenwich Cyclists. The LCC details are here: https://lcc.org.uk/.--