FNRttC Christmas Ride and Drinks. Thursday 29th December 2011

[ceepeebee]

meant to say on last comment - great call on Arnold Circus, some great history and architecture there.

 

[dellzeqq]

meant to say on last comment - great call on Arnold Circus, some great history and architecture there.

and we can have races!

 

[ceepeebee]

I think Dz may be taking us on quite the tour of iniqiuity, we're going to be close or through the Devil's Acre too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_Acre

 

[dellzeqq]

I hadn't planned to, but the Wood Street Graveyard was really the product (an apt word) of the Rookeries.

Prompted by ceepeebee (great article in wiki, thankyou)I might revise the fate of the Scottish soldiers whose bones rest under the old Panopticon

 

[mmmmartin]

What about crossing the Millennium Wobbly Bridge, to the Tate Modern (cue rant about why it should be a sports centre for locals not a tourist attraction for Johnny Foreigner to look at crap "art") then turning left, past The Globe (the only building in London to be constructed with a thatch roof for several hundred years) then past the offices of The Greatest Newspaper In The World Bar None, past the Golden Hind etc etc...........

 

[dellzeqq]

I don't think you can cycle across the Millenium Bridge (although rumour has it that a band of desperadoes once shot across at one in the morning, reaching horrendous speeds and generating the most amazing roar from the metal deck............)

 

[thom]

I did go through the Tooley Street mess the other day, and had a chat with the people working on it - they should be clear by Christmas.

If not, we'll turn right, and go under the bridge via the Golden Hind.

Um, just check the cobble replacement work around Southwark Cathedral is done... The other way though is just a left under the railway bridge onto St. Thomas St, past the hospital and back to Tooley St. under the railways.
Either way, I just thought the Tower of London and Tower Bridge route is more of a spectacle. There's even a way to take in St Katherine's Dock too.

 

[thom]

I don't think you can cycle across the Millenium Bridge (although rumour has it that a band of desperadoes once shot across at one in the morning, reaching horrendous speeds and generating the most amazing roar from the metal deck............)

It has rather a slippery surface at times too...
There are normally a fair few pedestrians on the South Bank at this time of year so you just wouldn't want to.
The lack of traffic on the other hand should be very accomodating and make otherwise busy roads good routes.

 

[ceepeebee]

I hadn't planned to, but the Wood Street Graveyard was really the product (an apt word) of the Rookeries.

Prompted by ceepeebee (great article in wiki, thankyou)I might revise the fate of the Scottish soldiers whose bones rest under the old Panopticon

For all Wiki's faults in terms of accuracy and rogue "facts", some folks have done a really good job on London's history on there. The nichol article which covers Arnold Circus is also good.

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

Um, just check the cobble replacement work around Southwark Cathedral is done.

The road was still dug up there when I passed on Saturday.

I'd love to join in this ride but have to work. Boooo

 

[mmmmartin]

The road was still dug up there when I passed on Saturday.

I pass it every day I'll ask when it finishes.

 

[Flying Dodo]

I think Dz may be taking us on quite the tour of iniqiuity, we're going to be close or through the Devil's Acre too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_Acre

Quite appropriate to refer to an area around Westminster as

nests of ignorance, vice, depravity, and crime

 

[mmmmartin]

A nice East European gentleman working on the cobbles around the Golden Hind tried to tell me this morning when the works would be finished. He mentioned the words "jan", "may" and "march". I think he meant the works would not be finished by the New Year. Or that his friend Jan may be able to march over them soon. Or something.

 

[TimO]

I didn't think I was going to be able to make it for this one, but I have a sneaking suspicion I may be around now. I need to check exactly when my train back from the south-west is, and then exactly how early I can pick Zev and Kai up from the cattery. It may be tight, but I may yet make this one, which may make up a bit for missing the last FNRttC of the year, next Friday.

Of course, Zev and Kai will then get dumped in the house, given a couple of bowls of cat food, and left to get on with it!

 

[ianrauk]

i'm now definitely up for this.