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Hurlingham Club is pretty private and non-blaggable.
"WHEN AM I ABLE TO COME AND VIEW THE VENUE?
Our wonderful team are here to show you around Monday - Friday between 9am and 5pm. We also offer Saturday visits once a month. Please contact the sales team on 020 7610 7526 to arrange a meeting.""In recent years, Sebastian Shakesperae also writes that Hurlingham members have been put-off by the invasion of the ‘oiks’ such as the cast of Made in Chelsea, as well as the ‘industrial-size crusts’ of the club’s sandwiches."
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Would all of this be easier with a boat? Are you allowed to row or kayak along the Thames there?
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Dead to me.
4k run this morning to get the errant tile South of Barn Elms that I'd missed the other day.
My Squareinho is limited to the North by the tiles in the pic (don't need to worry about any further North than this as I'm ultimately limited by the tiles in the middle of the Wetlands Centre that are pretty much ungettable, even for Mr France.)
The one North of the Hurlingham Club I can get via the public park to the North of it.
The ones in Wandsworth Park and along past Quarter Pier are easy. I've cycled that hundreds of times but obviously never recorded a GPS trace of it.
So the tricky ones that remain are the three in a row either side of the "Wandsworth Reach" tile as the Hurlingham Club is pretty private and non-blaggable. Luckily they should be available with a bit of mudlarking at low tide. You can get down to the river on the North side from the bottom of Broomhouse Lane and a pair of wellies will get me along to get the two Eastern most tiles.
The Western tile of the three should be gettable from the South bank (again, needs a low low tide). Not sure about access; there's definitely easy access to the shore up towards Putney Bridge by the Boathouse Pub, but the Yacht Club next to the railway bridge probably blocks access, and no idea if I can just walk in there and ask to get down to the shore. Other option is from the East, either from a ladder on the fence in Wandsworth Park if one exists, or via the houseboat access to the East. Will check for ladders next time I cycle past.)
There's also the tile next to the dump on Smugglers Way in Wandsworth. The one to the right of the dump is trivial as the Thames Path is there and cycleable. For the one on the left there's an access road to the left of the dump that used to be a storage company with a load of containers, streetview has it as a National Express depot now, might be possible to just charge to the end on the bike and apologise, otherwise it may be another walk up in wellies from Bell Lane Creek.
From there the next river tile that's tricky is the one just SW of Battersea Bridge as the only non water bit requires getting onto Cheyne Pier which I think is restricted, but I can go down there and chat with a local. Otherwise it may need more welly action to get it from the South bank at low tide again.
To keep it interesting I'm mixing up going for the easy tiles with going for the trickier ones. A 1h round trip to get 5 tricky small tiles is just as good as an hour long hoon to add 100+ to my yardinho.
(The tile names are still shit, but I'm enjoying Squadrats)
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