Bicycle Tag of bike

There is this discussion on it here...

[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ely_Place[/ame]

But I think that the confusion ultimately stems from the fact that the road is privately owned and the police would be subject to the usual protocols of entering any privately owned property (i.e. check which masonic lodge the owner is a member of first).

Vitaly on the QI forum is almost certainly Vitaly Vitalyev, the travel journalist who wrote the Telegraph piece. He used to appear on TV with Clive James a long time ago.

Vitaly on the QI forum is almost certainly Vitaly Vitalyev, the travel journalist who wrote the Telegraph piece. He used to appear on TV with Clive James a long time ago.

Ha ha. Love that, great source checking. So we only have this one guy. And he cannot be trusted as he is (A) a jounalist and (B) writes for the Torygraph.

I will stay with maybe, maybe not, but fun fact anyway.

I'm going to stop trying to find out now, because the romance is much nicer and more interesting than the facts :-)

There is this discussion on it here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ely_Place

But I think that the confusion ultimately stems from the fact that the road is privately owned and the police would be subject to the usual protocols of entering any privately owned property (i.e. check which masonic lodge the owner is a member of first).

The linked article is great. Love those WIki fact checkers. But what does this mean: "but presumably it is in a similar position to Burlington Arcade, which has its own beadles?". What the hell does "has its own beadles" mean.

I know, I digress. Where are we at the moment? Oh yeah, old bike...

On my other point, I wonder why it and only it was reconsecrated.

I've been in, yes the glass is quite nice Niall- 50s or 60s stuff right?

beadles are an old private police force - see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19683562 (video) for a bit more on them.

I suspect that the laws of hot persuit may well enable the police to enter any of these places if needed. AFAIK they can certainly force entry to a private dwelling without a warrent if they think a wanted person is in there. On the other hand, IANAL.

^^ Yes, post war, certainly. 50's I think. The website has a rundown of the history.

A member of a particular RC sect bought it when the Welsh church put it up for sale.

In the 1980s there was a strong suspicion that the Thatcher government was about to privatise the police service. In a pre-emptive move a private security force was constructed by cloning well loved television japester Jeremy Beadle. They would be expected to either use his avuncular charm to dissuade wrongdoing, or that his keen abilities to construct complex practical jokes to thwart hardened criminals who would never even suspect he was behind their downfall until he revealed himself at the end by removing is disguise of a beard and glasses.

A few private enterprises did take up a few of these "beadles" for security but the scheme was not a real success as the wholesale police privatisation was undertaken in secret so no one would be alarmed by the fact that we are now policed by a subsidiary of Toy-R-Us. Also the cloning process was unreliable, in fact the one that was used to replace Jeremy Beadle on telly, while the real one retreated to a life of idle luxury on a private Caribbean island, had to be prematurely terminated when people started noticing the telling hand size discrepancy. The real Jeremy Beadle has since moved and now lives in an underground complex on the moon.

Time to get back on the pills for a bit Matt.

@niall Opus Dei I think.

I hated that man with his creepy little hand.

#althoughclearlyiamnotprejudicedagainsthedisabledingeneral

OLD: Temple Church, in Temple (Shock Horror)

NEW:It's actually a fountain but you cana see da water in winter.

^ nice and easy.

Yeah. I was struggling to think of one so just went for that...

^^^ It's that teenslain meme girl.

Isn't the old one a re? Doesn't matter now but..

^^^ It's that teenslain meme girl.

Hah great shout. Oh and Matt repped

Isn't the old one a re? Doesn't matter now but..

Well remembered!

It was a taggy cat tag: http://www.lfgss.com/post2377075-162.html

So glad to see tag back up to speed after the Christmas lull

Old:
Canada Memorial, Green Park

New:
Lazily thematically linked

Isn't the old one a re? Doesn't matter now but..

Well remembered!

It was a taggy cat tag: http://www.lfgss.com/post2377075-162.html

So glad to see tag back up to speed after the Christmas lull

Not in Tag thread = not a retag.

The column with the two knights on horseback, by the way, was only put there in 2000. It commemorates the point at which the Great Fire of London ended. As such, in contrast with Christopher Wren's classical column marking its beginning, the architect designed a gothic column.

Good fact that^

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

Next couple of Sundays apparently, and being a bit of a closet trainspotter myself I'll be on the lookout for it.

Old: Maple Leaf Canadian bar, Maiden Lane, Cov. Garden. Mr DC13 and I watched the rugby here one day, trufax.

New: Hopefully photo clear enough, can get another one in the light if needs be...

I'm pretty sure the latest tag is a retag, seeing as its right around the corner from my house...

If I'm right you may want to find another..

is that not tag 317 on the map?
if so is the old tag current tag?