Croydon - Wandle Trail - Thames Path - Battersea, Waterloo - Two Temple Place exhibition
Sunday 14th April 2024 10:00am
Starting from - Queens Gardens, central Croydon CR0 1GY, opposite Fairfield Halls, CR0 1GY
This Croydon Social Cycling Group ride is open for anyone to join
- 21 miles
- Mountain Bike, Hybrid (off road tyres), Hybrid (road tyres), Road, eBike
- 4 hr
- Steady
- Croydon
- Adults 16+ only
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Organized by groups in the community, these rides are a great way to meet new people, explore your local area and to have fun riding your bike. You can find rides that are suitable for your level of experience and interests whilst enjoying being part of a social cycling community.
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About the route
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CR0 1GY
The next ride takes us to an opulent gothic mansion by the Thames to see an exhibition of glassware.
"This bold new exploration of glass in the UK brings together for the very first time rarely seen works from key UK collections, celebrating this remarkable material – unforgiving, fragile, strong, sustainable.
The Glass Heart will make you think again about glass as we explore how it has illuminated and contained human narratives and ideas."
We will set off from Queens Gardens as usual and ride the Wandle Trail to the Thames and then the Thames Path downstream through Battersea Park, Vauxhall and Waterloo to cross Blackfriars Bridge. We will stop for lunch at a cafe en route for about an hour near the halfway point. After parking our bikes outside Temple Station we will walk to Two Temple Place for the exhibition, which is free and no booking required. That marks the end of the trip. We can return to Croydon from Blackfriars station whenever we like.
The total saddle time is around 165 minutes. The total time from Queens Gardens to Blackfriars including lunch: four hours. Two Temple Place closes at 16:30 on Sunday.
As always, the ride is also posted in London Cycling Campaign's Events pages and our WhatsApp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/HFVOnWScHzi0Ss1w1leYrE
"This bold new exploration of glass in the UK brings together for the very first time rarely seen works from key UK collections, celebrating this remarkable material – unforgiving, fragile, strong, sustainable.
The Glass Heart will make you think again about glass as we explore how it has illuminated and contained human narratives and ideas."
We will set off from Queens Gardens as usual and ride the Wandle Trail to the Thames and then the Thames Path downstream through Battersea Park, Vauxhall and Waterloo to cross Blackfriars Bridge. We will stop for lunch at a cafe en route for about an hour near the halfway point. After parking our bikes outside Temple Station we will walk to Two Temple Place for the exhibition, which is free and no booking required. That marks the end of the trip. We can return to Croydon from Blackfriars station whenever we like.
The total saddle time is around 165 minutes. The total time from Queens Gardens to Blackfriars including lunch: four hours. Two Temple Place closes at 16:30 on Sunday.
As always, the ride is also posted in London Cycling Campaign's Events pages and our WhatsApp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/HFVOnWScHzi0Ss1w1leYrE
Who else is on this ride?
2 ride participants
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Neil Paterson
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Community Groups Volunteer
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Ming Wong
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