Ninnes Ride
The Genesis of a Ride
There’s a fellow who lives in Maiden Gully – let’s call him Greg, because that’s what his name is – who often walks around his neighbourhood, passing a mysterious old grave site. He often wondered about it, until one day he walked past and found a group of people gathered there. Being a curious fellow he went and asked the people who they were and why they were gathered around this grave. The story he got planted a seed, the seed grew to an idea, the idea grew to a plan, and here we are, about to set out on a ride from Burra in South Australia, to Bendigo in Victoria.
The group gathered at the gravesite that day were the Cornish Society. They gather there once a year for a monthly meeting. The grave holds the remains of a woman called Maria Ninnes and two of her children.
But what has that got to do with cycling?
Maria ws the wife of a Cornish immigrant named Thomas Ninnes, who
