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April 7th, 2009 Posted 7:23 pm
Next Sheffield FridayNightRide.
Social Housing II
Friday March 26 2010
Start: 6.30 pm
Meet: car park of the West End pub, Glossop Rd/Clarkson St
NB if you want to join the ride but are late or want to join during the ride call Mick on the number below - it’s good to talk
What’s it about: Following on from Social Housing I in Sep 08 we are off to to visit and explore significant social housing in
* Broomhall (60s and 70s experimental houses),
* town centre (early examples of council housing),
* Firth Park/Shiregreen (between the wars council housing),
* Wincobank (An Edwardian exhibition of social housing influenced by Bournville and the Garden suburb movement),
* Norfolk Park (new green/eco-houses as social housing)
* and Heeley (Derby Terrace: the best social housing in Sheffield?)
before finishing in Sheaf View or the Union – again!
Some sites we have visited before but as Sheffield FNR is a fluid constituency many who come on the ride may not have been to the sites before
Route and the sites’ details are on the map at
View SheffieldFNR Social Housing II (www.sheffieldfridaynightride.org.uk) in a larger map
Most of the route is very familiar to us - its the sites we haven’t concentrated on.
Heads Up! This is all on roads or metalled paths and should suit any bike. About 14 miles.
Advice there is some climbing (and some scary descending too!) so if you want to check out an elevation section then go to this site
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Sheffield-FNR-Social-Housing-II
pass the cursor ‘Show’ and click on elevation profile
Cheer yourself up before the next ride - take a dekko at this
Fraternal/Sororal Rides: There is a London FridayNightRide www.fridaynightride.com (where I was inducted into the experience)
I could maybe see if the London FridayNightRide wants to do a fraternal ride sometime in Sheffield and we could visit London and do a nightride there
“FridayNightRiders of the World Unite!”
Anybody want to do this?
Mick
“We have nothing to lose but our chains!”
w: www.sheffieldfridaynightride.org.uk
e: sheffieldfridaynightride@blueyonder.co.uk
facebook: Sheffield FridayNightRide
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