From train station to Ferry to The Iron Men

For those of you coming from the Wirral and surronding areas, we shall meet at Hooton Train station at 9.00am. The best value ticket is a saveaway (cost £4.80 return) and we can purchase these at the ferry terminal. Today our ride will take us from Hooton Station, through Eastham, passing through Bromborough Pool, along to New Ferry and down to Woodside ferry to get the 10.30 ferry to Liverpool Pier Head then onto the Famous Anthony Gormley statues in Crosby. The ride will take us along the Canal path of the Leeds to Liverpool canal, through the Meadow Fields Park and onto Crosby. Another Place consists of 100 cast-iron, life-size figures spread out along three kilometers of the foreshore, stretching almost one kilometre out to sea. The Another Place figures - each one weighing 650 kilos - are made from casts of the artist's own body and are shown at different stages of rising out of the sand, all of them looking out to sea, staring at the horizon in silent expectation. The work is seen as a poetic response to the individual and universal sentiments associated with emigration - sadness at leaving, but the hope of a new future in another place. The artwork was previously displayed in Cruxhaven in Germany, Stavanger in Norway and De Panne in Belgium. In November 2006 the statues were expected to move to New York but it was later decided that they would remain on Crosby beach. The canal path is all flat but we will for most of it travel in single file (all together as a group) and takes us all the way from the city centre to Crosby. There are a couple of places to eat and get a warm drink in Crosby. If you need to ask any questions please call me on 07729 114055 or email me at [email protected] Wearing a helmet is advisable; if you don’t have one please do not to worry you can still take part.  If you enjoy the bike ride and would like to come again perhaps you could look to buy one then. Look forward to seeing you there!