Bicycle Tag of bike

I love how the coot makes it look as if the black swan has a black cygnet. :)

Also, we haven't had anything about the bomb at the ANC office (Settle's tag):

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2013/mar/15/anc-apartheid-bomb-london-office

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_bombing_of_the_African_National_Congress_headquarters_in_London

well done both. Aglet's one is perhaps closer to the flat in question, number 85, but it looks nicer from the other side, and fantastic to see the black swan!

Number 85 Hermitage Court was caught up in the investigation about the 'Great Train Robbery' of 1963. The link is a crooked solicitor, George Stanley, also known as George Sturley, who used his mistress' flat at Number 85 as a discrete meeting place for others more linked to the robbery itself. Police tapped the phone line and recorded a number of tantalising conversations:
"Things are a bit fresh. Would you take it over the road and put it in the fridge in case it goes off?"

It seems his role was to launder the stolen money through the solicitors Lessor and Co (where he was managing clerk), on Stratford Broadway E15 (now the Best Turkish grill I tagged, recognisable as the Tudor style building in the black and white photo from '73).

Stanley also had links to the TPO mail van robbery of 1952 on Eastcastle Street, at the time the largest robbery in the country. His cousin Charles Sturley was one of the suspects, though no one was ever charged for it and the money was never recovered.

This is mostly from Andrew Cook's book on the train robbery using police reports at the time.

Lee Sturley, his nephew, has also written a tell-all book about it, one which wouldn't pass much academic scrutiny I have to say, but it has some interesting details, for example of the exact location of the solicitors, and that George laundered the money by buying and doing up houses in Southend and selling them off, and feeding back [some of] the money through the robber's partners. He mentioned that Maurice Lessor was so impressed with Hermitage Court he rented a flat there for his private life. It also makes some very bold claims that George Stanley was in fact the mastermind of the train robbery, and that the Eastcastle robbery was a precursor to the train robbery - the mail van money was smuggled to the solicitors in an apple cart he claims.

Who knows if these bolder claims are made to sell the book or in fact do have some truth to them.
I hope tag worthy all the same!

Old Fish island this hoarding used to have a favourite graffiti “From shithouse to penthouse “ on it

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New to reference a few recent tags:
From one island to another
Not a home for magpies but for another corvid
And finally for Wills love of musicals Mr Schick! lived here?

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The blast was heard as far as Stoke Newington. Legitimate use of the term bombproof. Apparently they are renovating the building into a multi use space.

https://twitter.com/PentonStreetCML/status/1341051451322355713?s=19

Looks like a good project.

This one is only just south of the river! ( or east if you are talking about the river Neckinger).
The plaque shown on street view seems to have been removed, maybe the owners of the £4.25m flats don’t want reminding it’s the site of a notorious slum where” the evil Bill Sykes met his end in the ooze bed of Folly Ditch.”

There's pretty much a label of where it is in the pic so I guess people haven't had time - I've not.

It was bloody difficult to miss out more obvious signage most of the buildings round there have their name in foot high letters.

Old: New Concordia Wharf

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New:

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Clue please.

You might have crossed upon this at the rear of the the tag.

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Side view

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Is the wooden building the tag?

Nope, red brick one.

Never mind clues, I don't even know what building I'm supposed to be looking for.

Moar Cluez!

Octavia Hill's legacy.

Old, Octavia Hill's hall, Red Cross Gardens, Borough

New: from one cross to another, the question is, which came first?

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Old, Octavia Hill's hall, Red Cross Gardens, Borough

Strictly speaking, the street address is in Ayres Street, with Red Cross Garden (singular) round the back. Seeing as this was really two tags in one, the squashed barrel-shaped structure is the office of the Open Spaces Trust:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5030574,-0.095308,3a,76.7y,69.24h,78.96t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMSBli9Kjtc8lB93ynZF1pQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

On Octavia Hill:

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

Which is the new tag?

The first two pictures are front and rear of the old tag - the first from Ayers Street; the second actually showing Octavia Hill's cottages and hall from Red Cross Garden. The third picture with the grass in it is the new tag.

Playing this game, you could easily end up in one.