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• #16452
Oaty's clues probably helped you find the wrong building. But this building is right beside that one. Just head over and walk around it. Nice day for it.
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• #16453
Old? New? New New?!?!
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• #16454
The old new turned out to be well old and so not new at all.
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• #16455
lost
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• #16456
Is the holy man on top of the dresser? No, he isn't on top of the dresser.
Is the holy man under the bed? No, he isn't under the bed.
Is the holy man in the closet? No, he isn't in the closet.
Oh, there he is. And his home is just next door.Ah, no, not there, the other next door. Don't go in there - somebody will just make you hold two tin cans and then try and take away all your money.
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• #16457
Old: Oriel Window next door to St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe, just south of St Pauls
New: Had the Wardrobe, now the Lyons, (no witches though*)
*except if you take an onion product onto the heath
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• #16458
Wow
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• #16459
The oriel window is part of St Andrews House, which used to the residence of the priest attached to the wonderfully named St Andrew by the Wardrobe. The church is not much used now and is looked after by a priest whose main church is nearby.
The house (and that window) are clearly visible from St Andrews Hill but I guess not a lot of people who won't work in the immediate area have much reason to walk up that road (although the Cockpit is a nice old pub).
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• #16460
Tags south of the river always take longer. More clues?
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• #16461
Got it.
Surprised I didn't get it sooner.
Now I've just got to go and get it IYSWIM. -
• #16462
old
5 t0 35 South Row on Blackheath. Not sure exactly why oat44 chose this fairly unremarkable building over the road from the duckpond, but I'm not unsympathetic to the architectural style.
I've gone a bit panoramic to include the old red phone box by the Princess of Wales pub, behind the willow tree to the right of the image.
I've had the number of this phone in the Rolodex (some will need to look that up) which lives on my desk, for over 20 years. I was living in Harrow at the time and flying kites.That's quite a way to come to find that conditions are unsuitable. If I rang the phone, somebody outside the pub would invariably answer it and tell me whether or not there were kites in the air. At least that was the plan - I don't remember if it was ever executed.New
You get only 2 chances each day to tag this one.
Methinks it'll go quick.F*ck me!
What is it with Flickr?
It was never fantastic - but has now become a steaming pile of excrement when it comes to uploading.
I think they'd be really struggling to make the task any more counter-intuitive, than what they have already succeeded in doing. Apols for poor structure. -
• #16463
My daily manor.
Nice pic! -
• #16464
Ta.
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• #16465
Chain's a bit slack...
Nice photo. I'm off work next week so might be able to go out and play btob. -
• #16466
I'm off today - that's why I did it.
Chain is in dire need of epically overdue attention. -
• #16467
Ha @Jurek Well, you're right, and my original intention didn't quite come to fruition.
The 'unremarkable' building was by Modernist architect and RIBA president Eric Lyons, famous round Blackheath for the high quality/well designed 'private' Span house estates, what I had originally planned to tag. If you go down Blackheath Park, a fenced off gated community designed by Lyons, you'll see it as he intended and it is about as Narnia-esque (albeit Modernist) as you can get in London. It was a surreal place. There were roads, and a mix of Victorian and interestingly designed minimalist 60's houses with well kept front gardens and trees and flowers, but what made it different was what was missing. There was no litter, no traffic, no vans, no mopeds, no bus stops, no phoneboxes, no billboards, no adverts, no BT cabinets, no graffiti, no potholes, no road paint, no wheelie bins... and so on. I felt like an intruder and scooted off to the nearest bit of public land within eyeshot of a Lyons building.
For a more historical account have a read of this:
http://www.c20society.org.uk/botm/corner-green-blackheath/Apparently the millionth post war house was built somewhere in there, and to give you an idea of the size of the estate, try getting a closer look on Streetview.
Basically you can't, it's a massive Streetview blackhole, another reason I thought, on reflection, it might be best not to tag there.
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• #16468
Ha back! oat44.
It was the combination of your words 'south london' and 'heath' which clinched it for me.
The view was familiar (from flying kites up there), Then it was just a case of A Lemon Nation of the ponds on t'heath.
Wasn't Fanny Craddock one of the erstwhile residents of Blackheath Park in the autumn of her life?
With rumours that on sunny days she could be spotted from the top deck of whichever double decker bus went by, nekkid in the garden of her house .... -
• #16469
Anyone got any idea where this is?
I have none...
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• #16470
I'm waiting for an arbitary 7 days to pass before I comment / clue
It isn't up there with the difficult / obscure ones....
Really. -
• #16471
It's probably somewhat tidal
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• #16472
Wholly.
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• #16473
Bit quiet round these parts.
So, there's only one tidal river in London right? Should narrow it down a bit -
• #16474
the wandle
the lee
the fleet
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• #16475
you missed one...
Close, but it's only £9.99 and you have to buy an inverse shim for £9.99. Also, it's not @somebody who wins but someone else. And some people will guess regardless and will be beaten with those who knew where it was all along. :)