London Clarion 1894 members...

Founds this while trying to make a point about the Pankhursts and cycling in the Bicycle tag thread. Love the idea of Christabel Pankhurst totally owning the hills ...

http://www.sheilahanlon.com/?p=89

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I'm going to try and make it, though I'm not 100% I'll be able to get there or find it. Not familiar with that part of town, really. If I do make it I'm happy to do minutes.

Bump!!

I'm going to try and make it, though I'm not 100% I'll be able to get there or find it. Not familiar with that part of town, really. If I do make it I'm happy to do minutes.

Easy

There's a further connection between Sylvia P and cycling. In the 20s she ran a tea shop in Woodford. Woodford would then have been on the edge of Epping Forest and cyclists would probably have stopped there on their way out or back from the forest.

The site of the tea shop is on Woodford New Road, just before Bancrofts School . You can easily find the site as its also where Sylvia placed her monument againt aerial bombing. This is a small stone statue of a bomb hurtling downwards. It can be seen from the road side, though its a bit hidden by bushes . The statue is about 1.5m high and is surrounded by railings . Sylvia erected in protest against the Italian bombing of Ethiopia and it predates, I think, Picasso's Guernica by some years.

One could combine a ride out to Woodford with a William Morris "News from Nowhere " ride out to Epping Forest. There's not much else worth seeing at Woodford.

I pmed Wen Jian in case a guide is required.

I'm not a mad person, honest.

Is that a guide to East London and beyond

We could do a "News from Nowhere " ride , but that would be Hammersmith - Bloomsbury - Oxford.

Sorry to bail, but unfortunately I'm snowed under with prep for my Residents' Association GM.

In terms of rides, I was thinking that Cable Street>William Blake's grave>Abney Park (founder of the Chartists is buried there there)Newington Green Unitarian Church (associated with Mary Wollestonecroft)>Karl Marx could be the embryo of a route. There must be more going on West and South - maybe make it into a circuit? Or bring it back round to end at St Pauls?

Apologies, Again I'm gonna have to bail.
Been trying to clear it all but can't get away from work 'til much later. Work's a bitch right now.
If we're doing 19th I will definitely make that.

this play opened this evening, i strongly recommend it 'Her Naked Skin' set in 1913 England, playing at the Bridewell Theatre til Saturday..

http://www.towertheatre.org.uk/hns.htm

1. Clarion
   
2. Digger
   
3. cliveo
   
4. itsbruce
   
5. Joe
   
6. Peter Carter
   
7. Opiumia
   
8. Stephen Zero
   
9. EEI
   
10. Skully
    
11. chompy (no pasaran!)
    
12. Butterfly
    
13. TGL
    
14. TS (polo tank division)
    
15. Poots
    
16. Wen Jian
    
17. Object
    
18. Twist305
    
19. Samuelson
    
20. JaRyder
    
21. almac68
    
22. Zeb
    
23. badmansam
    
    

I'm in, Digger. Good to meet you earlier and hopefully will meet the rest on the 19th. Definately need a white front by then though, vanity over solidarity all the time every time...

Hackney Bicycle Film Society Show

Tomorrow **Monday 12th December

The Cyclist

**This remarkable film from the Iranian "new wave" mixes Sydney Pollack's dance marathon film "They Shoot Horses Don't They" with a good deal of Fellini-esque imagery to produce a distinctly Iranian social critique. Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf retells a story from his youth in which a poor man raises money by riding a bicycle for days without a rest. In this film, made in 1987, the man is a poor, unemployed Afghan refugee with a hospitalized wife. Rescued by his young son from committing suicide by being run over by a truck, he allows himself to be billed as a one-man circus act, riding in a circle for a week while a crowd gathers, wagering on his ability to endure to the end.

As always the night's film will be proceeded short films on a theme related to the main film

At the Calthorpe,
Grays Inn Road

Starts 7:30

Tonights film

The bike is loaded and ready see here

Well no Clarion members turned up but it was still a good night despite me being knocked out and hospitalised on the previous Sunday

Zebs

Well no Clarion members turned up but it was still a good night despite me being knocked out and hospitalised on the previous Sunday

Zebs

Ouch! What happened?

Wen,

I only wrote because some people who shall remain nameless said "oh that sounds really interesting" then didn't turn up but luckily I have my membership list and despite some regulars not coming we still got 22. I booked all the nights for next year last night as well so looks like the Bicycle Film Society has hit a critical mass of people attending.

Zeb

Zeb,
I really wanted to try for this but I've had to swerve everything, drinks,meetings, GF etc. for work over the last few weeks.
We got sackings redundancies and bullshit all-round, evenings are owned by the man right now.
They know how to put the pressure on.

Sorry to hear about the Sunday knockout. What happened?

It was in my house I turned round as I walked out of the kitchen trying to listen to a joke tripped and whalloped my head on a cupboard out clean, interesting whilst it happens but painful later on like now. Isn't helped by me coming off my single speed today front brake worked to well took my straight over the handle bars lucky I did not knock myself out again.

Zebs

and Ja no worries about not coming to the film it was a good night.

Ow...

Anyone coming to the vigil tonight? http://www.lfgss.com/thread76487.html

Woah Zebra, sorry to hear about concussion, hope you're ok.

I'm fine well came off my bike twice this week but still and always riding

What's the score tonight?

We agreed last time to make it the Coach and Horses, Digger booked the room upstairs it will coincide with the South drinks Christmas party.

Sorry guys I can not make it but will be at the Hackney Bikeworkshop drinks tomorrow night

Zebs

I can't make the meeting, this time. Won't be along to the C&H until closer to 8