Bicycle Tag of bike

I was wondering if a lock and a pair of hiking boots were now std equipment. By the selected gearing there must be a v steep incline nearby

I forgot my lock - I was relying on people walking past it being distracted by the view in the other direction.

Got the location.

Oh I know exactly where it is now - very distinctive fencing

This had better be right. Parkland walk, northern extension.

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Reminder of the old (new) tag.

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It's in an area I have tagged a lot.

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That's the one.
It's the viaduct over St James Lane, Muswell Hill, previously the Highgate to Alexandra Palace branch line

https://harringayonline.com/photo/st-james-s-lane-viaduct-muswell-hill-1888

Edit:
https://www.parkland-walk.org.uk/history

The branch to Alexandra Palace followed in 1873 when the Peoples' Palace opened. The Palace burnt down two weeks later and the branch closed for two years during rebuilding

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Anyone need a clue? Anyone give a toss?

I know it, ten mins from my house, but I’m Girona 🫠

So looking at where the bike is in the actual pic, you left it locked up on Parkland Walk and then went right to the top of St. James's Lane to get the picture with it in?! Impressive effort!

Picked up the tag a few days ago but didn't get round to taking a new one.
If it hasn't moved by tomorrow morning then I'll move it on

In the middle of cooking dinner and realised I again forgot I had gone out to tag and didn't get a follow up.
Idiot.

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Lack of clues or lack of interest/opportunity?

Cycling is a very good way to alleviate the feelings of loss and sadness that I have no doubt we are all consumed by at the moment.

Old: Brickflats at Kynaston Avenue, Stoke Newington.

New: more brick flats, these ones soon to be demolished, having received a Certificate of Immunity from Listing in 2018.

Clue. Cun*y is one way to describe this

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Sod it, choice of two tags, this one may be easier.
Get either or both.

Both have a connection to recent events, this one is more obvious, the first more oblique. Bonus points if you can find them.

Edit: this one is the inscription at the foot of the urn, not the square itself

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Got the first one. Might pop out tomorrow if it's not raining.

Oat to the rescue.

Old: Queen Square, silver jubilee geraniums

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New: is the sun over the yardarm yet?

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I'll take that.

The first tag was the now doomed Cundy Street flats, built 1952, near Orange Square, Pimlico Road.
The Queen Consort was living here in the early 70s, (in Stack House, the one pictured) when she was introduced to King Charles III who was then aged 21. He was a regular visitor.

The second tag was an urn in Queens Sq, Bloomsbury. The two inscriptions were commissioned to celebrate the Queen's silver jubilee in 1977, one by Philip Larkin and the other by Ted Hughes.

It was Larkin's one that Starmer quoted in his commemorative speech on Friday:

In times when nothing stood
But worsened or grew strange
There was one constant good
She did not change

The other, by Hughes is more appropriate for cycle fans perhaps?

A nation's a soul
A soul is a wheel
With a crown for a hub
To keep it whole

When Larkin submitted his, he sarcastically imagined what Hughes might offer and came up with this. Clearly not good friends then.

The sky split apart in malice
Stars rattled like pans on a shelf
Crow shat on Buckingham Palace
God pissed himself –

Made a right pig's ear of finding this place, got caught up in a load of road closures and now tagzumped.

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For posterity

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I’ll take that

I should coco cocoa, I went to the trouble of framing both inscriptions!

Clue: [queen] mother’s ruin