Afternoon NHS 75th Anniversary Cycle Ride

This is a repeat of the morning ride. Please use Eventbrite to register so we have an idea of numbers, link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/afternoon-nhs-75th-anniversary-cycle-ride-tickets-671680653917.  Note this is not the same link as for the morning ride.  Details:

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 part of a regular programme of Saturday rides, more information at https://southwarkcyclists.org.uk/healthy-rides/.