Two bike rides to celebrate NHS 75th Saturday July 8th

[Sally Eva]

NOTE. Please register on Eventbrite so we can limit numbers, link below. 

On July 8th^t we will have 2 rides. Registration on Eventbrite as usual. The first one was booked out almost immediately so we organised the second. Same route, later time.

July 8th Ride details 

First one: NHS 75^th Anniversary Ride < https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nhs-75th-anniversary-cycle-ride-tickets-671312191837 > 

10 am to 12.30 pm.. Start/Finish at Southwark Gateway Needle, SE side of London Bridge, near LB Station. This ride is about how the NHS got started. First stop Lloyd George. His Liberal government introduced in 1911 National Insurance for workers. This included free health care. Next Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health in the post-war Labour Government that started the NHS in 1948. Finally 2 stops about how the idea of a national health service developed in the first half of the 20^th century. Southwark played a key role. An outstanding figure was Dr Alfred Salter, a socialist who practiced medicine in the brough from 1900 and whose campaigning on many social issues led to his becoming MP from 1922-1945. He and his family are commemorated by statues on the Bermondsey waterfront. Before this a stop at a plain 1937 building on Grange Rd. This is still an NHS Centre, but started as a local authority-run public health centre, the first in the country. Local authorities increasingly ran accessible heath centres in the 1930s.  

Second Ride Same as the first but starting at 2.30.

Details are as before but the Eventbrite link is different, https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/afternoon-nhs-75th-anniversary-cycle-ride-tickets-671680653917.

Here are the details again:

Start/Finish at Southwark Gateway Needle, SE side of London Bridge, near LB Station. This ride is about how the NHS got started. First stop Lloyd George. His Liberal government introduced in 1911 National Insurance for workers. This included free health care. Next the Blue Plaque commemorating Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health in the post-war Labour Government that started the NHS in 1948. Finally 2 stops about how the idea of a national health service developed in the first half of the 20^th century. Southwark played a key role. An outstanding figure was Dr Alfred Salter, a socialist who practiced medicine in the borough from 1900 and whose campaigning on many social issues led to his becoming MP from 1922-1945. He and his family are commemorated by statues on the Bermondsey waterfront. Before this a stop at a plain 1937 building on Grange Rd. This is still an NHS Centre, but started as a local authority-run public health centre, the first in the country. Local authorities increasingly ran accessible heath centres in the 1930s.  

12 mile, 2.5 hour ride, Bruce leading. Easy paced ride, but note there are some busy stretches of road on this route. Map at https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1llhVlmzv4WGATzCCzLafPpG2ax-6r0k&usp=sharing

 

This ride is organised by Southwark Cyclists and is part of a regular programme of Saturday rides, more information at https://southwarkcyclists.org.uk/healthy-rides/.