Happy birthday to the Pickwick Bicycle Club, founded today in 1870. Plaque on the former Downs Hotel in Hackney claims it’s world’s oldest extant bicycle club.
Those present today got a celebratory placemat featuring original six members of the club.
Some folks then went for a ride on @sustrans National Cycle Network 1 to Lea Valley.
Got to give it to those Victorians, they were way ahead on social distancing, putting the rider well out of the way.
Stuart Elliott, President for the club’s 150th year, rode his 1870 velocipede.
I had a go on it. Heavy. Scary. £10,000-worth of heavy scariness.
And then as rather a contrast I went ultra-modern by visiting @Labourstone who showed me the amazing transformation of the former Whipps Cross interchange. Podcast later.
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