Bicycle Tag of bike

Once upon a time. It's lovely, a perfect commuter and also a good little gravel grinder if you take the guards off.

Old: Euston Station pub The Doric Arch. (Doric being the architectural style of the old Euston Arch. Nothing to do with Arch Doric, which you can hear spoken in Aberdeen's gay pubs)

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New:

What was once a fine old row of shops, now all converted to residential use. The one in the foreground was an ironmongers, beyond it you can see a haberdashers and a confectioners. To its left, out of shot, was a general store whose name still shows above the entrance.

This square is at the centre of one of London's oldest housing estates. To stretch out the columns theme, one of the very first residents on the square was the then editor of the Times newspaper.

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Blimey, that (new one) is one of the few (that aren't obvious) that I've just recognised straight away.

Won't be passing it on a bike anytime soon though.

With that level of clues, I reckon Skully will get it. :)

Also, what a bizarre bike Bruce is riding.

Oh, I seem to remember you may have posted about this or told me before. Incredibly sad.

dat waffle slab tho.

It seems like a lot of info, not quite sure which bit of it could really be said to be a clue. Perhaps the housing estate bit. The rest is ‘these used to be shops doncha know’ which, tbh, doesn’t narrow it down much.

Happily, the view seems a bit familiar. I might even try to work out where it is.

It seems like a lot of info, not quite sure which bit of it could really be said to be a clue.

Should I have picked a square named after a footballer or a cricketer? Which this wasn't.

It's a big clue that it's a square, because there aren't very many squares in South London. Having said that, if you call that square a square, it's yet another example of London's non-Euclidean geometry. :)

I have found a square to which all the clues make sense. Where I'm looking but I can't bloody find the building!

If you picked the right square, there's a clue in the picture which should make it trivial to find the building.

Looks so familiar. But since I refuse to engage with clues, not a scooby.

How does Oliver know it’s South?

Because he knows where it is. He silly.

I don't, it's actually North, but I thought I'd throw everybody off the scent so I can still get it tomorrow.

Out of interest, is anyone updating the map at the moment?

Wait there's a map? etc

Wait, there's a map updater?

I was too scared I’d ruin it with my first tag

I genuinely still don't know how to use the map - much less update it.

Anyone else pondered compiling a list of all the tags? How many have there been? And if such a list could be created, how could it be made searchable?

Date | tag description and photo | approximate street address | first part of postcode | what3words coordinate

Anyone else pondered compiling a list of all the tags?

20 volunteers = ~41 pages each. 6 pages a day and it'll be done in a week.

I'd volunteer to do a chunk of pages.

Anyone else pondered compiling a list of all the tags?

Yes, but I'm too thick to work out how to plot them onto a map.

tag description and photo

Archiving the images somewhere would be handy as if you look at the old tags they have often disappeared from whatever hosting service was used.

The map does what the list would do, and the bonus is that it's mostly done.

I'm happy to update the map for a bit - I know when I made the Hyde Park Pet Cemetery re-tag that someone was updating it so the first job is to work out when those updates stopped.

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If I get a chance I could write a how-to for the map?

Be good to give something back.

Just added a tag - it was easy. Search for the landmark, hit 'add to map', upload the photo, add tagger and any embellishments.