Memorials and bikes

[PeteXXX]

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Lyle Park, east London, right up against the Thames.

A very secret park, damn hard to find (in fact I only know about it, as doubtless a fair few folk do, thanks to departed Barry Mason) and looking for it again a few days before I took these pics I went right past it.

Some interesting stuff on it here:

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2012/03/11/tate-and-lyles-staff-park-in-silvertown/

which includes some interesting comments.

Note the date on that blog post - though still secret to outsiders, it's not to the folk in the very large block of flats that now sit on one side of it - such is the relentless development of previously shunned bits of London.

My dad worked in Tate & Lyle about 55 years ago. Mum, sister and I used to walk/Woolwich ferry from Eltham Park to meet him for lunch. I think that's the park we met in! The other place was Island Gardens, if memory serves.

 

[Blue Hills]

Posted this picture in another thread but thought I’d add the plaque that’s on the bench too

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reminds me slightly of a pretty recent gravestone I know in Lancashire which says something along the lines of "keen fisherman - never caught" - can't help but wonder what the last bit refers to - can't show a pic for obvious reasons.

 

[Blue Hills]

My dad worked in Tate & Lyle about 55 years ago. Mum, sister and I used to walk/Woolwich ferry from Eltham Park to meet him for lunch. I think that's the park we met in! The other place was Island Gardens, if memory serves.

It's some way from the Woolwich Ferry - Island Gardens a fair bit further as well. Yes London's changed - I remember when Island Gardens was almost a secret view of Greenwich. Any many folk didn't even know the Greenwich foot-tunnel existed - these days it's almost a cycle superhighway - and tourist-clogged.

 

[PeteXXX]

MnewBIFO in front of Barton Seagrave War memorial..

 

[And]

Two from today

Memorial to Engineering genius James Brindley at the village of his birth, Wormhill

War memorial in Hope that is for Hope, Thornhill, Brough and Shatton

 

[figbat]

I found this purely by accident today. I had just topped out a climb to the Ridgeway and was a dripping, sweaty mess. I was looking for some shade to take a brief rest, snack and drink, saw this rock and thought it looked perfect. It was only as I got near I realised it was a memorial. It turns out it is a sarsen stone and memorial to Penelope Betjeman, wife of poet laureate John (who I studied at school). I have ridden past it countless times.

The inscription reads:
In memory of PENELOPE BETJEMAN who loved the Ridgeway. 1910 1986.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Decisions, decisions.... "Bike in front of memorial/church"?
What about bike behind memorial, propped against church? Enough already!
First ride since lockdown, legs felt terrible, Garmin not charged so no idea how far?, 25 miles? I have done 80 miles and not had to walk around like John Wayne. Blimey.
Sealand Church with a very simple yet powerful memorial, silhouette of a soldier says more to me than the usual Edwardian types.
My moaning soundly put into perspective.

 

[biggs682]

Where is that bench @uphillstruggler ?

 

[uphillstruggler]

Where is that bench @uphillstruggler ?

morning @biggs682, it’s on a path between cosgrove and castlethorpe. there’s a weir that is noted on an OS map,the bench overlooks it, possibly the chaps favourite fishing spot

 

[biggs682]

A tree planted to commemorate the 1887 jubilee of Queen Victoria .

Oh and my F.W.Wilson .

 

[PeteXXX]

MBIFO Wroughton on the Green War Memorial on yesterday's ride

 

[Brads]

 

[EltonFrog]

MBIFO a war memorial in Sutton Courtenay.

 

[EltonFrog]

A bland modern memorial to the fallen on the Green in Cholsey.

 

[biggs682]

Mbifo of a bus shelter that bears a plaque that commemorates the silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth