Bicycle Tag of bike

Has the facade of Turner's house had windows bricked-up on account of Window Tax, or is that brickwork decorative?

Interesting video on there about the restoration. It was in a terrible state beforehand.

http://www.butlerhegartyarchitects.co.uk/news/turner-society-newsletter-turners-house-twickenham-0
(not secure link btw)

It seems from the restorers that this is a bit of a mystery. The bricked up windows were different brickwork and mortar from the main facade apparently, but don't fit with the interior layout. Turner's own sketches don't seem to correlate with it either.

TLDR: nobody seems to know for sure!

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I'm rather lost by the clues. Particularly Mark Anthony's speech.

Sorry. Just a bit of silliness.

ear ear for silliness

Yes, all for silliness.

I'm just one of those people who needs the joke explained. :-)

Jeez, me too.

It was your joke...

If I had to guess, window tax.

I know right? kerazy.

Old: Blackhorse bridge down Deptford way.

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New; Not far from a recent tag of mine.

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Van Gogh cut off an ear.

The next line of that speech is "Lend me your ears."

Yep, Greenbank cleared that up for me.

Where is Blackhorse Bridge, btw?

I am trawling around Deptford on Google maps looking for it. I've found a Blackhorse Road but no bridge as yet.

Took me a little while to work that out too; it's on Evelyn Street, just before Blackhorse rd, heading south.

If the new tag isn't obvious, think about rabbits.

Ooooh yes. No way I’ll get there, but good clue.

It's the bridge over the old Grand Surrey Canal. It took a while to find as I was looking for some kind of railway.

Ah yes, Skully tagged a southern bit of that a couple of years ago:

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/12378277/

Unfortunately, Diamond Supercool's pictures are dead.

Heard recently from an SE local that the Surrey Canal was a failed venture and operated for a really short time. Funny to think of old infrastructure like canals as private enterprises.

Well, virtually all 'modern' infrastructure was. All the railways, canals, and a lot of roads, e.g. the (tolled) 'New Road', essentially the North London by-pass, nowadays called the Euston/Marylebone Road. We've only really thought about it all as 'national' infrastructure since their nationalisation. However, recently there has been a renewed push for privatisation, e.g. with the M6 Toll Road.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M6_Toll

This I did *not* know:

2.5 million books, including many Mills & Boon novels, were pulped and mixed into the tarmac surface to help absorb water.

Whittens were still having their timber delivered by barge back in the 70s.
There used to be a B&W photo of barges delivering, in their office.

Whittens were still having their timber delivered by barge back in the 70s.
There used to be a B&W photo of barges delivering, in their office.

OK so maybe that was some other canal I was being told about... perhaps the one that ran though Brockley was some other spur?

I think you are right about that.
The one that ran through Brockley and down to Croydon became the railway which currently follows the same course.
If you come out of Forest Hill station and cross the south circ the pavement has cobbles, as that is where the tow path once was.