2011-04-29 Fri (Bank Holiday) - The Republican Ride

Mike, the "royal" wedding is on 29 April. I would like to avoid it and would like to go for a long ride. Indeed my coach insists that I do. A ride based upon an anti-royal/revolutionary/republican theme seems appropriate. A long republican ride would appear ideal. Ideas are to visit St George's Hill, the site of the Diggers commune, places linked to Karl Marx, Emma Goldman, The Angry Brigade, suffragists and others who have been involved in the struggle to bring power to the people are being suggested as is Runnymede, the site of the signing of Magna Carta.

OK?

Cool. I wasn't aware of such an event in April, but a ride sounds like a good idea

Looking for sites associated with the Levellers I found this:

The Putney Debates

Granita restaurant in Islington.

It's now Desperados and not a very significant place in the development of popular power in the UK. Granita was quite a nice restaurant but not as nice as Lola's or The White Onion, both of which have also gone.

Looking for sites associated with the Levellers I found this:

The Putney Debates

Sounds like a good point to pass on the way out west.

Digger has a commune, not much of a surprise.

Granita restaurant in Islington.

Troll. Reported.

@ wiganwill
Reactionary^

But funny

Tyburns triple tree to remember Ollie Cromwell.

Don't want any Irish people on the ride then?

Wibble Cromwell is not being commemorated... Think digger was being ironic or something.

good :P

By the look of things, we ought to go along tooled up to commemorate the Diggers in the proper way;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George%27s_Hill

Although I imagine Clive would be reluctant to string up the few current and ex-Chelsea players amongst the millionaires who now reside on Saint George's Hill estate.

Andy, the idea is to have a good ride away from the nonsense and to commemorate great moments and people in our history not to start a revolution.*

Not yet anyway.

*Necessary statement in a public internet forum

No lynching?

I'm out.

Cliveo's disclaimer, typical of a legal practitioner.

So what monuments are we going to redecorate?

That would be kates job.

I recaul my father recounting how he missed the coronation rebuilding his tandem with his commy mate.

I rather like the idea of riding around town in a roundhead helmet.

Was Cromwell a republican ? I doubt it.

Why not go for sites to do with Tom Paine?

Or Sylvia Pankhurst out in Woodford...
GBS in Bloomsbury

are you going to stop at the Socialst Workers hq?

It's a long ride to Norfolk Peter ;P

And for all his ills Mr.Cromwell was part of our only period as a commonwealth republic.

also, a Cromwell style roundhead helmet would define what the ride's about quit visibly.

suggest a slight amendment, i'm sure blackheath was a fairly major staging post for watt tyler, it means yo could climb up to blackheath, carry on up shooters hill and loop round through greenwich for a bit of a climb....

Runnymede and the Magna Carta. Celebrating the first census of Britain, ordered by a conquering French tyrant, to extract as much wealth from the country as possible. On an anti-monarchist ride?

Skully's suggestion of Wat Tyler is good. Canterbury to Blackheath to celebrate the Peasant's Revolt? Approx 60 miles.

S. Ed thinking on the same lines

Canterbury to Blackheath to celebrate the Peasant's Revolt? Approx 60 miles.

Shit ride, if you go up the A2.