Hallowe'en ride

So, I reckoned we needed another ride: fun, not hectic; night time so a bit more interesting but not too late as it will be a 'work' night for all those commutengers out there (like me!)...

Being as it's Hallowe'en coming up soon, an appropriate theme seemed to be graveyards or cemeteries. There's loads of them about: check the London cemeteries site. Anyway, the 'Magnificent Seven' seem to be the ones to see, but I'm too much of a n00b that I know for sure I won't make it around them all in one evening. So... here's the proposal: a north London cemeteries ride, with an extension southwards for those who live that way (or with more stamina than me!):
Start time: 6.30pm (for a 7pm departure)
**Start place: ** South entrance to Brompton Cemetery
Route: see below for details
Anyone wanna come??

[EDIT:]
OK, details are as above. North London route is now available: map.

[li]We meet at the south entrance to Brompton Cemetery on Fulham Road. The park is open until 8pm in the summer and 4pm in the winter, so there's a chance we get to cycle through it towards kensal rise, in which case the map above becomes slightly void and we improvise.[/li]
[li]Kensal Green cemetery closes at 17:00 so we'll only get to hang around outside. Interestingly, this is one of the only cemeteries (the only one?) that is still functioning - and has been run by the same company since its inception in 1830! [/li]
[li]Highgate Cemeteries are closed by 17:00 so we also won't get to go into them, but will get to see both the East and the West on the bike ride, I think.[/li][li]Abney Park is closed. But a very cool cemetery.[/li]
[li]Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park closes the main gates at dusk, but the 'kissing gates' remain open at all times.[/li]
[li]Nunhead Cemetery - about which I cannot find very much information[/li]
[li]West Norwood Cemetery is in Lambeth and closes at 18:00 so we won't get to see it.[/li]

Halloween costume compulsory, right?

can we visit my front garden...im sure i left a few bodies under there///

lpg Halloween costume compulsory, right?

right! i was gonna suggest all wear white (or something) to be like the ghosts (white overalls are pretty cheap down a builders merchants - like, a couple of quid) but maybe your imagination is better than mine. other ideas, pumpkin head?

trick or treat?

we are so going to be egged!

good idea btw

not sure about the all in white, people may think the kkk have just discovered the bicycle

i predict drivetrain ensnaring...

@ aidan: kool, so i take it you're coming :p
@ lpg: thanks. thriller.
@ glow: yeah, you're probably right about the kkk - as i said, ideas welcomed ;-)

It's in the calendar.

Got a map for the route between these cemetaries?
Sure it's not possible to do all 7?

hippy It's in the calendar.
Got a map for the route between these cemetaries?
Sure it's not possible to do all 7?

i'll work on a map - but don't know if i'll get it done tonight. i'm pretty sure it's not possible to do all 7, but i guess we can see as it's mapped out... it should actually be possible to head down from Abney Park to Tower Hamlets, so we'd get 5 of the 7. but the other two are Nunhead and Norwood, which are heading way too far south for me....
COI: i spend my days around the centre of town (bloomsbury) and i live up north.
also, thanks for putting it on the calendar :)

are you studying or working in bloomsbury?

i'm up for the ride, but fancy dress scares me. i already look ugly enough without resorting to face paint and other such accoutrements.

peejay78
i'm up for the ride, but fancy dress scares me. i already look ugly enough without resorting to face paint and other such accoutrements.

maybe masks, then? that would solve both problems

did you know a young rod stewart (the old crinkly rocker) onces dug graves at highgate cemetary ;)

A Hallowe'en night ride sounds like a lot of fun,
But i would check, because some cemeteries have opening hours like 0900 - 1630.

dogsballs did you know a young rod stewart (the old crinkly rocker) onces dug graves at highgate cemetary ;)

You gotta dig graves baby!

west norwood cemetery's nice. there's a blackadder grave there too.

aidan we are so going to be egged!

...what on earth makes you think that? :)

Any thoughts on where we would start, are we meeting in one of the cemeteries?

leautinant slackbladder?!

i have a cunning plan!!

This sounds brilliant, I'm in.

nice idea. reckon you have got to include nunhead and norwood though. nunhead is amazing and will be well spooky late at night (i am assuming we will be scaling walls into all of them as they will all be closed). norwood last perhaps.

nothing to do with the fact i live in tulse hill. honest guv.

jonnywilkinson nice idea. reckon you have got to include nunhead and norwood though. nunhead is amazing and will be well spooky late at night (i am assuming we will be scaling walls into all of them as they will all be closed). norwood last perhaps.

nothing to do with the fact i live in tulse hill. honest guv.

I'm a Brixton Hill resident so anywhere south would be ideal.

Count me in btw!

ok, i'm heading out in a few minutes and got stuff to do this evening, so i'll either work on the route later on tonight or tomorrow evening and then we can bicker over the details after that. HOWEVER, the current plan is this order: brompton, kensal rise, highgate (east and west), abney park (stoke newington), tower hamlets, nunhead, norwood. if anyone knows any additional stops we should make in between or any specifics about any of those places (e.g. easiest walls to scale with a bike, best place for a TT, must visit pubs, or whatever...), please let me know.
oh, and i repeat, this will be a beginner/n00b friendly ride. lookin' forward to it!

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1) Roland