The Pickwick Bicycle Club was founded here on 22 June 1870. At that first meeting, it was decided that the Downs Hotel should be the general rendezvous for bi-weekly excursions on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Closed in 2007, now residential.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Downs Hotel
Commemorated ati
Pickwick Bicycle Club
Hackney Citizen 25 June 2014 gives the history of the club and explains "A co...
Other Subjects
1 memorial
Alexander James Avery
At the ever useful Pubs History we learn that the 1899 Post Office Directory lists Alex Jas Avery as the publican of White Hart pub in Kennington Lane. Other names are given for 1895 and for 1899 s...
1 memorial
Richard R. Wale
Worked for the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. Was on the building committee for the Bostall Estate in 1900 and was Chairman of the building committee for the Abbey Wood branch in 1912.
2 memorials
Edwin Waterhouse
Accountant. Born Liverpool to wealthy Quaker parents, brother to Alfred Waterhouse. With Samuel Lowell Price and William Hopkins Holyland he founded the accountancy firm, Price Waterhouse. Preside...
1 memorial
Greenwich Workshop for the Blind
The London Metropolitan Archive holds records for the Greenwich Workshop for the Blind, 1875-1960. and explains: "The Greenwich Workshop for the Blind, began as the Workshop for the Blind of Kent,...
1 memorial
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