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• #25152
You're on a tagzumping roll
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• #25153
What was the previous one, oat?
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• #25154
It’s all about the journey to the tag(zump)
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• #25155
^^Well that would be telling :)
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• #25156
I passed this recently and noticed the name. It sounds like the type of place Mojique might plant devices.
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• #25157
I still don’t understand what Bonnie Tyler has to do with the tag on Cowper’s Court.
Things moved fast today! But if you are still wondering, it's "turn around, Bright Eyes". If you were facing the tag before and turned around, you'd be looking at Cowper's Court.
I am sad enough to have recognised the tiles, but I didn't get off my arse in time to get the tag.
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• #25158
Oooh alright. Definitely not thinking laterally enough then. Thanks for the explanation!
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• #25159
Tagged the new one this afternoon, then forgot to follow it up as I was having too much fun riding about.
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• #25160
Bugger of a headwind first thing this morning.
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• #25161
I'm sure that if I go to get it during lunch break someone will have bagged it by the time I get to it.
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• #25162
Old: Free Trade Wharf, from the Thames Path side.
Excuse the lack of wide angle
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• #25163
New:
Stepping into this Place feels like finding a huge built-in Wardrobe in your flat.
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• #25164
CS Lewis? Forget that, I was not being literal enough.
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• #25165
OLD: Wardrobe Place.
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• #25166
NEW: clue to follow when I've made a pot of tea and got some feeling back in my toes.
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• #25167
You'll have to hunt for it, maybe make a chart. Even then you might end up in hot water.
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• #25168
Got it. FPWM.
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• #25169
Wardrobe as in the wardrobe of the king I believe.
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• #25170
^^That's the first time I've seen a clue to one of my own tags that I don't get.
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• #25171
Ha! It's what the statue in your picture is.
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• #25172
Mine was Free Trade Wharf, a 1980s apartment block next to Free Trade Wharf, older converted warehouses built by East India Company, the rejected tag :)
A bold claim perhaps, but I think this is where a major fire started in 1794, destroying the surrounding area then known as Ratcliffe. It is said to be the largest fire London experienced between the Great Fire of London and the Blitz.
I think several things point to the tag's location. It started at a barge builder at 'Cock Hill' - [note Cockhill wharf on the map]. It then ignited a barge carrying Saltpetre (potassium nitrate) which then set the Saltpetre warehouse itself on fire. The Free Trade Wharf built in the early 1800's is referred to here as being formerly a Saltpetre warehouse. (Upside down:)
It then spread north and eastwards along what is now the Highway (then the Ratcliffe Highway, or Broad Street on the map) until it reached the west part of Narrow Street.
The rescue effort was also worth a read.
http://www.wickedwilliam.com/ratcliff-great-fire-london/
https://isleofdogslife.wordpress.com/tag/fire-of-ratcliffe-1794/
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• #25173
Is another clue needed?
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• #25174
Think I got it.
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• #25175
old: Finsbury war memorial,spa green gardens
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Clue: near to a spot made famous by Willoughby and Frobisher