Ripley High Street
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Ripley High Street by Ron Strutt as part of the Geograph project.
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Ripley High Street
Image: © Ron Strutt Taken: 9 Sep 2005
showing the Anchor pub and the church beyond. The Anchor was a favourite destination for a cycle outing from London from the 1870s. Unlike most such establishments, the Dibble sisters, Annie and Harriet, positively welcomed cyclists and it wasn't unusual to see two or three hundred bikes piled up outside. On Whit Sunday 1894 it is said that 20,000 cyclists passed through Kingston on their way to Ripley! In the Anchor there is a book containing signatures of famous cyclists who passed through, including H G Wells. There is a memorial window to the Dibble sisters in the church, subscribed to by the cycling fraternity.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.298834
Longitude
-0.493887