Hello Wayfarers and friends
Elleray Hall Teddington yesterday witnessed a very special occasion. John Hammond celebrated his 90th birthday, on his first visit to this venue. Our birthday chorus was in fine form. Brian had recently won the ballot for our Arthur Jessop shield and John, a previous winner, presented the shield to Brian, which made the award even more memorable. John recalled and thanked the four volunteer Wayfarers secretaries over his 25 years with the club, particularly mentioning the one we nearly lost one Sunday morning John when called for Arthur Butcher only to smell gas - AB had turned on and forgotten to light the oven and was blissfully unaware until John's arrival. Thanks for our refreshments and your memories and many happy returns, John.
'A' group enjoyed a towpath ride to The Cricketers at Horsell. For your correspondent, the ride was unlovely due to the weight of the trophy in the pannier causing the pannier to leave the carrier at every tree-root along the Wey - and the Basingstoke. Twelve were at lunch, Julian, Pam and John, Pete B, Ed, Pete M (arriving via tarmac), Graham, John B, Ray, Frank C, Brian and leader Vic who earned and shared a rebate for bringing ten or more of us to this new venue. The ride to tea at Tesco Brooklands was marred by a puncture by Pete M (meaning we saw little of Pete all day) and by Frank chewing grass in sympathy.
Hi Brian. Having consulted our TEA (Towpath Expert Adviser) Gill, at Teddington, I decided to put my plan B into operation for 'B' group and led Christine, Gill, Judy, Cliff, recumbent Ed, Grant, Johns B and S, Les, Norman, Phil, Robin, Rob and Tony through Bushey Park onto the A308, turning off it onto the quieter Lower Sunbury Road with views of the swollen river, leading to Walton bridge. Over the cyclists bridge, down the steps, under the bridge to ride alongside the river to Weybridge then by the Wey Navigation to Addlestone. Along Green Lane to cross the A320 at the double roundabout into Holloway Hill where unfortunately Tony punctured. Then we were only a couple of miles from lunch (The Royal Marine at Lyne) so I gave Tony and assistant Grant instructions and the rest of us carried on, arriving at about 1300 hrs. When ordering our food the barman said we would have a half hours' wait. During our stop the pub electrics failed but were soon restored. We left soon after 1500 hrs, apparently the kitchen staff were new standbys. This meant a shorter afternoon run than planned, we retraced our route to Weybridge with riders leaving at frequent intervals and when we arrived at Stoke d'Abernon Seymours only Judy, Cliff, Norman, Rob and myself stopped for refreshments. As we departed the heavens gradually opened as forecast earlier; all things considered not one of our better rides. Terry
Pretty wet and miserable for a twelve mile ride to elevenses at Teddington but I think we all wanted to celebrate John's birthday and there was a very good turnout at Elleray Hall (I still have trouble locating it!). Harold led around twelve of us 'C' group en route for `The Weir` pub. I had already passed it on the towpath having picked up a great deal of mud on the bike and I was curious as to Harold's route. Our company comprised Lynda, Liz, Deanna, Bill H, Roger, Fuzz, Mark, Ron, Brian Stead, Harold and me (I know that's only eleven, but I saw Dennis and he did not join the ride). As far as I can make out we went in the Strawberry Hill direction with some pleasant offroad (wide and well-surfaced) through woods and under a couple of rather narrow footpaths under bridges, one of which I found rather disconcerting but in my case to be expected. We came out of Cadbury Road in Upper Sunbury, then through Shepperton to Walton where we joined the towpath to The Weir pub. After a good lunch I took the towpath for home as the tea venue was Hampton Court and I clocked up thirty muddy miles in all. See you at Cobham. PS: It was Ron Weeden who led last week's 'C' ride. The only Rod I know is Rodney in `Only Fools and Horses` and he was `Dave` according to `Trigger` All the best ----------- Albert
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Elleray Hall Teddington yesterday witnessed a very special occasion. John Hammond celebrated his 90th birthday, on his first visit to this venue. Our birthday chorus was in fine form. Brian had recently won the ballot for our Arthur Jessop shield and John, a previous winner, presented the shield to Brian, which made the award even more memorable. John recalled and thanked the four volunteer Wayfarers secretaries over his 25 years with the club, particularly mentioning the one we nearly lost one Sunday morning John when called for Arthur Butcher only to smell gas - AB had turned on and forgotten to light the oven and was blissfully unaware until John's arrival. Thanks for our refreshments and your memories and many happy returns, John.
'A' group enjoyed a towpath ride to The Cricketers at Horsell. For your correspondent, the ride was unlovely due to the weight of the trophy in the pannier causing the pannier to leave the carrier at every tree-root along the Wey - and the Basingstoke. Twelve were at lunch, Julian, Pam and John, Pete B, Ed, Pete M (arriving via tarmac), Graham, John B, Ray, Frank C, Brian and leader Vic who earned and shared a rebate for bringing ten or more of us to this new venue. The ride to tea at Tesco Brooklands was marred by a puncture by Pete M (meaning we saw little of Pete all day) and by Frank chewing grass in sympathy.
Hi Brian. Having consulted our TEA (Towpath Expert Adviser) Gill, at Teddington, I decided to put my plan B into operation for 'B' group and led Christine, Gill, Judy, Cliff, recumbent Ed, Grant, Johns B and S, Les, Norman, Phil, Robin, Rob and Tony through Bushey Park onto the A308, turning off it onto the quieter Lower Sunbury Road with views of the swollen river, leading to Walton bridge. Over the cyclists bridge, down the steps, under the bridge to ride alongside the river to Weybridge then by the Wey Navigation to Addlestone. Along Green Lane to cross the A320 at the double roundabout into Holloway Hill where unfortunately Tony punctured. Then we were only a couple of miles from lunch (The Royal Marine at Lyne) so I gave Tony and assistant Grant instructions and the rest of us carried on, arriving at about 1300 hrs. When ordering our food the barman said we would have a half hours' wait. During our stop the pub electrics failed but were soon restored. We left soon after 1500 hrs, apparently the kitchen staff were new standbys. This meant a shorter afternoon run than planned, we retraced our route to Weybridge with riders leaving at frequent intervals and when we arrived at Stoke d'Abernon Seymours only Judy, Cliff, Norman, Rob and myself stopped for refreshments. As we departed the heavens gradually opened as forecast earlier; all things considered not one of our better rides. Terry
Pretty wet and miserable for a twelve mile ride to elevenses at Teddington but I think we all wanted to celebrate John's birthday and there was a very good turnout at Elleray Hall (I still have trouble locating it!). Harold led around twelve of us 'C' group en route for `The Weir` pub. I had already passed it on the towpath having picked up a great deal of mud on the bike and I was curious as to Harold's route. Our company comprised Lynda, Liz, Deanna, Bill H, Roger, Fuzz, Mark, Ron, Brian Stead, Harold and me (I know that's only eleven, but I saw Dennis and he did not join the ride). As far as I can make out we went in the Strawberry Hill direction with some pleasant offroad (wide and well-surfaced) through woods and under a couple of rather narrow footpaths under bridges, one of which I found rather disconcerting but in my case to be expected. We came out of Cadbury Road in Upper Sunbury, then through Shepperton to Walton where we joined the towpath to The Weir pub. After a good lunch I took the towpath for home as the tea venue was Hampton Court and I clocked up thirty muddy miles in all. See you at Cobham. PS: It was Ron Weeden who led last week's 'C' ride. The only Rod I know is Rodney in `Only Fools and Horses` and he was `Dave` according to `Trigger` All the best ----------- Albert
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