Bicycle Tag of bike

^^ Aren't they running a steam train through Farringon soon, for this very celebration?

^ Nice. I am a sucker for that whole (hole?) underground history thing. The post office tunnels around Holborn, the disused stations and stuff. They were so proud of it all in the day.

Shoulda come on this then:

http://www.lfgss.com/thread79553.html

(Considering whether to do this again, with a few repeats but poss a bit more of a southern focus)

(Considering whether to do this again, with a few repeats but poss a bit more of a northern focus)

Ftfy

I'm in

:-)

Seriously, I wasn't around then. Woulda had I seen it.

Anyone got the church? I hope the photo shows, it is jammed in a terrace of large houses.

Shame Apollo didn't get his last tag, I'm pretty sure I know his "new", and it's not too far.

It's been named above so it would be very easy to get.

just saw it now, and I was wrong.

Anyone got the church? I hope the photo shows, it is jammed in a terrace of large houses.

I'm riding that way tomorrow. If nobody beats me to it I shall do my first tag of 2013

Anyone got the church? I hope the photo shows, it is jammed in a terrace of large houses.

Perhaps when the drugs wear off you could give us a bit of a clue?

^^^ So was I.

^ didn't anyone tell you? They never wear off

Clue: it's not actually in London. Well, I think it is now, but back in the 50s it was in Cambridgeshire. Or so the story goes.

That's a bit of an urban myth, but it's a good story to propagate. There was a tag very close but tellingly the forum chose to tag the pub before the church.

By the way, this...

Best clue, Danish, sure, but it is square too. Briliant. I got it from that, but too far for me - I am at work today.

That picture had me looking for Bobbit Street/Lane, tbh.

Old:

St Ethelreda's Church in Ely Place
New:

In keeping with the bicycle I thought. (That is not a clue)

Just found this with my Google powers but don't have a camera with me today!

St Ethelreda's is an interesting one - Britain's only re-consecrated Catholic church. Ely place is, technically, part of Cambridgeshire, as I understand it. So it, technically, isn't in London and therefore not part of this game?

Ha!
I would imagine that it ceased to be part of Cambridgeshire when it was returned, as the sign on it says, to the old faith. If not before.

That's a bit of an urban myth, but it's a good story to propagate. There was a tag very close but tellingly the forum chose to tag the pub before the church.

I agree, I think it is an urban myth, and it is told regarding the pub not the church, but could not tag the pub as it had been done already. But the whole lot, church, pub and land around was all part of the Palace of Ely - which was the property of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and therefore part of Cambridgeshire. The story (myth) revolving around diamond robbers (Hatton Garden is nearby) hiding in the pub because the local rozzers could not make an arrest in there until they had phoned their counterparts in at the Cambridge Constabulary. <<- For the benefit of those wondering what the urban myth was about.

It used to look like this before the bishops sold it in 1772:

If you go in the crypt of the church (which is open, just walk in, and be nice) there is a model of the whole palace. The church is all that remains, I think.

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You should go inside. The stained glass windows are magnificent.
Take a peek: http://www.stetheldreda.com/index.php/gallery/

Indeed. I first went in there on a Friday lunchtime, and there was a service on. Got there just in time for the Lord's Prayer - which would be the highlight I am guessing. Not my sort of thing, but I don't mind watching.

I think the bike could be a clue. That bike could be used as a prop in a period drama I would have thought...

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What it's propped up next to is considerably younger than the bike.

The "myth" of Ely Place, by the way, appears to be no myth. http://old.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?p=148581&sid=a5b9146f8c549b409febbd9f0b3346ce
It is apparently still cambridgeshire, and the Met police are still not allowed in without an invitation from the Commissioners.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/726471/Things-that-go-bump-on-the-map.html

More likely to believe the QI page than the Daily Torygraph. Jounos just recycle shit they have read on the Internet. And the QI page is not actually from Mr. Fry, it is a post from a member of the public. In short I am still not sure. And it certainly is not the last privately owned street in London. What about Savoy Place, any of the Inns of Court, and even the new privately owned streets in the Spitalfields development?

I mean, it might be true, it might not. I always tell it like it is, when taking someone to the pub. But I wouldn't put money on it.