The trouble with the London Cycle Network is that you follow a route so far, then find that they ran out of blue signs, so you just have to guess where to go next. Getting back from Wimbledon today, I thought I’d try the LCN route, and then suddenly, all the signs stopped, and I only had half a clue where I was. I turned down a side street, found a park that appeared to have no exit, until I saw a tiny footbridge with no signs on it for anywhere.
And there, all of a sudden, was the River Wandle, something I was beginning to doubt existed, since I’ve never seen it except in tiny bits where it comes out of hiding, like outside the Savacentre in Colliers Wood. (Colliers Wood, it struck me suddenly, would sound much more romantic in Croatian: Rudarska Dubrava, or German: Bergmannshain)
Click on the pics above for a glimpse of hidden London, somewhere between Tennyson Road & Plough Lane.
