Current Exhibitions

‘RIPLEY – THE MECCA FOR ALL GOOD CYCLISTS’

Supported by The Anchor

Runs from June 8th to end of August

The new exhibition is being supported by the Veteran Cycle Club and The Anchor in Ripley. The improvised sign has already brought in a few Lycra clad visitors and the village hall has helpfully installed a bike rack.

 

However you do not have to be a cyclist to appreciate the story of Ripley and Cycling. Many local people will know that Ripley has a connection with cycling but maybe not know that in the last quarter of the nineteenth century  ‘Of all the stretches of highway popular amongst cyclists, the Ripley Road, without dispute, is far and away most famous’.

 

Ripley was so famous it had its own board game, its own cycling shoe and even its own tricycle.  So do not forget to come to the museum to learn more and enter a prize draw for lunch at The Anchor!

 

Incidentally Send also has a place in cycling history as it seems the Tricycle Association was founded in Send in 1928.