Bicycle Tag of bike

musical clue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH8WvayAo1M

Ha.

I did a walk-by of the Peckham tag last night as part of my evening stroll. Confirmed it was the tag and intended to come back today to get it.

But, if I am to be tagzumped then there is no finer tagger to be zumped by!

Yeah the last hut used to be some kind of play school which I imagine would have been very nice to go to right in the middle of the common. Sadly removed a few years ago as my guess is there wasn’t too much life was left in the 40's breeze block.

I don't think anyone will get the new one today

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Rep.

Both extremes at the same time. Didn't know they'd have to close the barrier.

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I should probably make it clear that you really don't have to get the rocks themselves. The steps from the top would be fine.

I'm doing the hard mode version where your wheel has to touch the cobbles.

I'm doing the hard mode version

I do hope you are not still there

Old: Colombia Wharf, The Thames

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Colombia Wharf

Columbia, not Colombia. :) @almac68

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Wharf,_Rotherhithe

Here's a StreetView image that shows the tag:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5054179,-0.0325925,3a,39.4y,307.31h,99.79t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipM2qN2117ZO_-Vg3GCjvYe9lJCPaZgsavqMwBbu!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipM2qN2117ZO_-Vg3GCjvYe9lJCPaZgsavqMwBbu%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya321.88754-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352

OLD: Columbia Wharf. Or Canada Wharf. Rotherhithe.

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Haaa, great 'zumping coming up? :)

NEW: who lives in a house like this? It could be you - it's a modern house and on the market at 2.85 million

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What happened, stephens?

They should charge people for getting Coulomb-ia mixed up with other things.

I was a long way off thinking it was somewhere around here: https://goo.gl/maps/1o5W6TXUKRqXfZbP8

I did a 3d Google satellite view tour of the river bank to find it. Feel bad, but not too bad, for you stephens but all's fair in love and tagging. Lovely morning for a ride anyway.

I do hope stephens is ok.

So the steps were Horn Stairs, leading to Cuckold Point. They used to string up pirates there as a warning to passing ships. And the oddest bit is its connection to the Horn Fair in Charlton. A procession started here by people dressed in horns a bit like those who stormed the the Senate.

https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095603689
One of London's most popular fairs, until it was discontinued in 1872, famous for its obsession with horns. In its heyday in the 18th century, visitors flocked to the fair in their thousands carrying or wearing horns and every stall was decorated with them. Every sort of horn imaginable, and everything possible made of horn, was for sale, and even the gingerbread men had horns. An origin legend provides a neat reason for the horn motif. King John was out hunting on Shooter's Hill, and he stopped to rest at a miller's house. The only person home was the miller's attractive wife and she and the king were just ‘kissing’ when the miller returned and caught them. He drew his dagger, threatening to kill them both, but when he realized who he was dealing with, he wisely asked for some other recompense instead. The king therefore granted him all the land visible from Charlton to the river beyond Rotherhithe, and also the right to hold a fair every 18 October (St Luke's Day). The miller's jealous neighbours gave the name Cuckold's Point to the river boundary and they started wearing horns at the fair as a derisive gesture.

This story may not be true as St Luke's motif also has horns, but it's a fun story.

Hope stephens is ok - I did actually get a bit worried last night that he had tried to do it at night and failed.

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I'm okay everyone, I just got distracted by how nice it was along the river and forgot to post the new. And don't fret Oat I wasn't there last night either.

Did the same as Will, just brute forced with a lovely 3d river tour, knew the vague area based on the buildings. Fantastic tag, happy that more than one of use got to it tbh and as Will said, all's fair in love and tagging.

I hope it's just that his phone has run out of juice or something. Edit: Posted a little too late.

Horn Steps

Marked as 'Horn Stairs' on the old map.

Here's some more--when you use the modern-day ferry, you famously have to walk through the hotel on the Rotherhithe side. There's been a ferry there for a long time, called the 'Limehouse Hole Ferry', and it seems from your map that (at least at low tide) it left from Cuckold's Point, which seems to be marked at the end of either a pier (are those the remnants of old pilings?) or just the hard standing that's still vestigial today.

Here's a nice blog entry about Cuckold's Point:

https://www.londonshoes.blog/2018/01/20/blackwall-point-cuckolds-point-the-thames-river-pirates/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckold%27s_Point

Here's something about the general area, including much about the opposite side:

https://islandhistory.wordpress.com/2017/06/20/limehouse-hole/

https://hidden-london.com/gazetteer/pool-of-london/

There's also a link to our old tag of Wapping Old Stairs by Execution Dock in Wapping:

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/9617026/

Back in the day, pirates were not to be granted Christian burial rights – and therefore, their bodies were usually coated in tar and then transported back across the Thames to 2 specific locations south of the River – where they were then placed in to a ‘Gibbet’, which was basically an iron framed cage, and then put out on display at 2 strategic locations on the Thames, to act as a visual deterrent to any would be sailors entering the ‘pool of London’ who may have been having thoughts of ‘plundering’ and piracy.

The 2 locations where the gibbets containing the decaying bodies of pirates were displayed, were “Blackwall Point” and “Cuckold’s Point”.

(From the Londonshoes entry linked to above.)

I assumed I'd be tagzumped today so didn't hurry home and for a couple of seconds thought I had been. Street view will only get you part way with the new one.

From Wet to Dry you could say

cough

how nice it was along the river

It is quite spectacular there at night, although I don't advise dragging your bike down the steps.

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