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10am, Peckham Square (Peckham Library, Peckham Pulse Leisure Centre). Approx 2.5 hour, 14 km ride ending back at Peckham Square at 12.30pm. Really easy ride with lots of short breaks as well as a longer coffee break. Ride leader Bruce.  Outward route starts with 2.5km of off road down the Canal Path and across Burgess Park. Then quiet streets and paths to Vauxhall Bridge via Kennington Park, the Beefeater Gin Distillery and the Pleasure Gardens. Having admired the river, return to the Pleasure Gardens for a coffee break at the Tea House Theatre.  Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens had their heyday in the Regency period. Concerts were held there, including the first performance of Handel’s Water Music.  The pleasure gardens also house the Lambeth City Farm.  Return route will include Lambeth Walk, inspiration for the song of that name in the 1937 musical Me and My Girl (watch this if you don’t know it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fgKn3SbCYQ). Last stretch will be across Geraldine Mary Handsworth Park (Imperial War Museum), then Elephant and Castle bypass and Cycleway 17 to Burgess Park. If time, we will make a small detour from Heygate St to have a look at Elephant Park, the new small park created as part of the E&C redevelopment.  Route at https://bit.ly/3KToaIz