Bicycle Tag of bike

There needn't be a contradiction; the history of London waterways is usually pretty complicated as they were constantly worked on, in general canals were a lucrative enterprise only for a fairly short time because of railways, and because while many companies went bust, others took over (often with the same workers, of course). When canals were filled in, this often happened in stages, etc.

The Wikipedia page shows the complexity of the history of the GSC:

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

Old: bridge just outside Warren St tube

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New: from a rabbit warren to a cat's palace. Easy one... you're welcome

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Bonus points for trailer and child too.

@Skülly Recognised the tag straight away, as it is one of the view blue plagues I deliberately wanted to find when I came to London as I like van gogh painting and reading about his life. Great tag.

What I found interesting when looking this up on StreetView was that it, and its opposite number, never had any large graffiti on it until the 2019 picture. (I expect I will have missed some small ones.)

Old: Regents Park outer circle

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Not far from another disused transport route, it's something similar to the man responsible for the mail.

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Excellent.

More specifically it was Number 6 Gloucester Gate, the blue plaque of which is visible just above the yellow car. This was owned by Henry Wellcome (Wellcome Trust etc) who seemed to like pampering cats. So much that they were evidently the only residents of this palatial address because he actually lived in a Portland Place hotel leaving strict feeding instructions for the cats in Number 6. Gloucester Gate.

http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2011/12/henrys-cats/

Right, next time I get it it's coming back to Hackney.

I did wonder what the link was! Recognized the building but didn't ride down the street far enough to spot the plaque.

Right, next time I get it it's coming back to Hackney.

All together now, you know the tune: Tag is coming home, it's coming home, it's co ...

@cagimaha that bike is pure porn. Perfection.

Thanks! Finished putting it together the other night so bike tag was a good opportunity to get some shakedown miles in.

Oh, back in @JurekB territory!

Yeah it’s a lovely bike that ...

I was there yesterday!

And I'm there today!
New: You've already had all the help you're going to get with this one.

Old: Statue of Poseidon, marking the spot where his ship sank after being torpedoed by a Ghanaian U-boat in 17BC in Dacres Road Forest Hill.
Or something.

@Ludd - Dacres Road Nature Reserve/ Croydon Canal is no longer accessible as it was when you introduced me to it, as I found to my dismay when I tried to show m'Julie around it yesterday. All behind locked doors/gates now.

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Nice to see the area again. Will we get to hear the story about the rats eating the leather seals on the pneumatic railway?

The other side of the bridge had this that went up after the French riots a few years ago.

Ah, I had recently worked out where Mr Pacific, formerly of Crystal Palace, is currently located.

Now I appear to be looking for a cobbled path. And seemingly there is a clue. But I'm unsure as to which part of the clue is the clue.

It was a pre-clue, possibly the first time that's been done. I say "was" because

Old: Cobbled pavement opposite Forest Hill station.

@jurekb , I seem to recall we once (briefly) encountered each other at just this spot back when I used to do the South Circular as a training ride.

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New:

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So I think those cobbles represent paart of the tow path around the old canal I was mixing up with the surrey canal ... @JurekB referring to the Croydon Canal, the one I'd heard was very short-lived. Presumably around Forest Hill station there would have been a lock or two given the topography around there.

That was one spot I personally would have got without a clue at all. @itsbruce's new one, on the other hand ... Let's just hope it's in Hackney to keep wiganwill happy.

So weird how tagging someone and adding 's makes it not tag them.

@itsbruce - I'd forgotten about that encounter - but yes, you're right - that was a long time ago.
@Skülly - Off the top of my head, there were 15 locks by the time the canal reached Croydon. At least two of the lock-keepers cottages are still standing.
One of them pictured below.
Correction - a total of 28 locks.
Canal opened in 1809, closed in 1836, three years later the atmospheric railway had been built, but that didn't last very long either, on account of (as @Ludd points out upthread) rats developing a taste for the tallow which was used to soften the leather seal on the vacuum pipe, rendering the locomotive with insufficient power to pull the skin off a rice pudding.

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