Bicycle Tag of bike

Oh. There seems to be no way of obtaining the address of the images to put them in the post properly. So attachments they remain for now.

Submit the post after you've uploaded attachments, then click one of the attachments so that the larger image is displayed. Select it (Ctrl-A will do) and copy it (Ctrl-C). Click the 'Back' button of your browser and click 'edit' on the post. Paste (Ctrl-V) the image into the post. Rinse, repeat.

Thank you Jurek, most kind :)

Oliver - that's what i would do on a computer, but on my phone clicking the attachment just causes it to download, not open in a new window...

Is the new one too rubbish a photo? I can't really tell. I'm viewing on my phone too... a smartphone it isn't.

Ah, OK, I don't know anything about mobiles.

Better clue please.

Better clue please.

+1

Think this one's pretty easy, a new view of an old place that won't last long. It was supposed to be a church (no more churches) but i needed to get in the gates for it to work and they were shut. Oh well.

New

For the new page.

a river runs through it
(I think this clue was used for a similar tag a while ago, which is why I didn't use it initially, but it works)

a garden between two saints

bullish gods are coming home

I apologise, it's an awful photo (now I can actually see it on a screen). I might go and do the photo I intended to if I can get there when it's open, but I'm a bit busy at work...
or I could just keep giving more clues.

Y'got me.
Spent a pleasant hour, in evening sunshine sniffing round LSE and Paternoster Square and its environs.
To no avail.
Moar clu pls.

yah. I can't really get out of here in daylight for the forseeable...

so:

in Roman times it lay between east and west
then as now, the site of the developing city

in Roman times it lay between east and west.
then as now, the site of the developing city

this is getting quite literal now.

I had a dream abut this. For anyone wondering, my subconscious believes the new tag is in Aldgate somewhere...

Old

Lovely little enclave - Oxford Court off Salt Hall Court.
The Building you're looking through is the Walbrook Building which, of course, sits on top of the Walbrook River, and I think the reference to 'bullish gods' is to traders as the original Stock Market was on the site of wht is now Guildhall - also atop the Walbrook.

New

hallelujah!
I was just about to go out and take the shot I'd originally intended to, which would have been a LOT more obvious.

Walbrook Building = new view
excavation site in view (not so obvious in photos but in real life that's what you can see through the building) = old place
soon to be covered up by the new development going on top = won't last long

Jurek correctly identified the Walbrook as a river runs through it

the funny little court/garden is between St Stephen Walbrook church and St Swithins Lane on the map = a garden between two saints

bullish gods are coming home is actually a reference to the Temple of Mithras that was unearthed there in the 1950's, rather shoddily reconstructed down the road, and is due to return to the site with the new development. Mithra had something to do with a bull. I'm not really up on my classical theology - the carvings are in the Museum of London though.

in Roman times it lay between east and west = the Walbrook basically divided old Londinium in two.

and finally...

google results 1-5 for "the developing city" refer to the Walbrook Building (the name of an exhibition there at the moment)

I did almost post - someone just fucking google it!

One thing which threw me for quite a while was thinking that I was looking at the river - when in fact what I was looking at was the polished floor of an as yet unoccupied building.
I need a little lie-down after that ;)

Oh, and of course, as I'm there today lens-flexing, all the police in the country are also present because the Paralympic torch is due at Guildhall at midday. Just the time to be snooping round alleyways....

http://www.museumoflondonarchaeology.org.uk/NewsProjects/TempleOfMithras.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/19/roman-temple-mithras

thanks for the reminder Jurek - I really was about to pop into the City with a camera for work porpoises, think I'll leave it a while!

Interesting place hoefla, I didn't try very hard, but I just couldn't unravel the clues, a taste of my own medicine perhaps :) I'll try and go while the exhibition is on.
By the way I went to Oliver's tag on Monday, the Markfield Beam pumping station, loved it - if you like all things mechanical it's well worth a visit on a day when they fire it up - next steaming is on Open House weekend in September

One thing which threw me for quite a while was thinking that I was looking at the river - when in fact what I was looking at was the polished floor of an as yet unoccupied building.

I thought exactly the same.

Great minds etc...

I'm surprised at you oat44 :) my clues too literal perhaps?

Markfield is ace, it's cool to see the big mechanical things in action, but I also like to sit on top of the mound that overlooks the skatepark with the two train lines behind. and there is a funny little "ecology garden" that usually has a group of surly but benign teenagers in it, that is quite picturesque in a scruffy way. both the ecology garden and skatepark make use of the concrete structures of the old sewage filter beds. only thing disappointing is the cafe...

oh, btw the photo I'd intended to take is from the top of the steps to St Stephen Walbrook, looking out across the excavation site. really worth a visit (if you like that sort of thing). there is also a brand new Rothschild HQ nearby, which has a clever view from their entrance on the tiny St Swithins Lane through another secret garden to the back of the church. also worth a visit, it's very shiny. sadly, you can't quite walk through from one side to the other, even though the design seems intended that way.

I had an amazing rare roast beef bap from a sandwich shop on st swithins. /csb

shinkuu kiss and I tagged the Markfield beam engine, but were beaten to it when we went to get the then active tag :(

..... another secret garden to the back of the church. also worth a visit, it's very shiny. sadly, you can't quite walk through from one side to the other, even though the design seems intended that way.

I came across that during my snoopings earlier today - it took me a moment to realise I was standing on gravestones.
It's nice to see the ancient being incorporated into the modern.

BTW it was the realisation that it had to be the Walbrook river that you were referring to, that had me print a map of it's course and re-trace it back form the Thames .....