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• #22952
10 years ago people would have been all over a clue about Creative. How times change. I bet some of you don't even own a Pac bag.
There are more branches of Ryman in London than you'd think. I will be in the area later but am going to leave it for someone else. -
• #22953
You know, I've never seen a City of London light before (top left in the frame).
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• #22954
Were you aware that there are no lamp posts in The City of London?
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• #22955
I wasn't! Thanks. Pretty good fact.
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• #22956
Old, deli box on cheapside
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• #22957
New:
Once squatted by a justified and ancient duo, they caught the last train to this location in '91 disappearing a few years later, last seen driving an ice cream van in Toxteth.
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• #22958
I think it was the tree above deli box that was the important bit :)
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• #22959
a friend of mine recently surveyed a flat owned by chief mu mu himself
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• #22960
Haha, sorry I was being a bit facetious!
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• #22961
What does @Blackandblue think?
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• #22962
All aboard... @finger_jockey @marcomarcos
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• #22963
I was going to say exactly the same regarding @finger_jockey
I was born, as was Roger Moore, in a maternity home in the street just off the new one.
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• #22964
don't bungle this one, use the zip-py code to find it
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• #22965
are we going to abide by this flagrant breach of the rules?
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• #22966
Ha ha, there is a little difference of opinion about which house is the actual location in mind. The one I’m thinking of looks different to this one, though this could very well be the correct one. I wonder if the basement is still as lively? 😉
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• #22967
Apologies for the rule violation, happy for the previous tag to stand if that's the verdict!
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• #22968
I say let it stand - if only because I have worked it out and want to go for a ride tonight.
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• #22969
Apologies, been out riding.
The old tag was the plane tree (or the two buildings beneath it but only because they are unusually low to accommodate the tree).
Either way, not the Deli Box itself.
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• #22970
So what's the significance of the tree?
Which happened to be neither the focal point of the image or photoshopped to disguise it?
Perhaps it's clear I'm not really a fan if these top tube tags.
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• #22971
Ancient Mariner.
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• #22972
Or as this writer’s good mate put it:
At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears,
Hangs a Thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years:
Poor Susan has passed by the spot, and has heard
In the silence of morning the song of the Bird.'Tis a note of enchantment; what ails her?
She sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees;
Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide,
And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.Green pastures she views in the midst of the dale,
Down which she so often has tripped with her pail;
And a single small cottage, a nest like a dove's,
The one only dwelling on earth that she loves.She looks, and her heart is in heaven: but they fade,
The mist and the river, the hill and the shade:
The stream will not flow, and the hill will not rise,
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• #22973
Significance of tree best explained here:
https://londonist.com/london/cheapside-plane
I thought my "clue" made it clear I was after the tree but I think the stunted buildings are also interesting as noted in the link above.
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• #22974
Yep I know where that is but It’s too hot to be cycling over there from East right now. Mines a 99
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• #22975
Old Old: a tree
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It's the former workplace of Will's alter ego, whom he imaginatively refers to as 'Bill', a member of the controlling classes, and for whom he even maintained a, now dormant, alias on here for years.