Bicycle Tag of bike

That last tag looked different in July. Wondered what it was going to be.

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Old. Jem Finer's Spiegelei, a camera obscura in the Olympic Park, inviting you to see the landscape differently...

New. My visits here often mark a low point of a weekend, and I suspect I'm not alone. So I invite you to see this landscape differently.

Clue: You can do it when you...

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Going there tomorrow to get a free tree

EDIT or I didn't.

'Show me a man who is tired of the Uxbridge Road ...'
Ran out of time/weather windows.
I've even been there with @sifta to see the construction site
for the Western Portal of the Thames Tideway Tunnel.
(Organised by Thames Water, we didn't just break in for a look around).

That's quite a few miles from me...

OLD: I think we might have reached a new low - carpark, B&Q, Leyton, Christmas Eve. No amount of Stephen Shore can make it alright.

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NEW: an area that's nice to ride round and a location where you can Literally Read Books.

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Arse, knew I didn't get going soon enough this morning. At least I got to go to glamorous Leyton Mills.

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It is a forsaken place in every way.

It has had slightly more glamorous history though. This was the site of Ruckholt Manor, a moated medieval hall first mentioned in 1284 then rebuilt several times and used for entertaining the higher echelons of society. It was visited by Elizabeth 1, James 1, Charles II and the diarists John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys.

But by the time Pepys visited it in 1665 it seems its slow journey to a B&Q carpark had started:

It is a good seat - with a fair grove of trees by it, and the remains of a good garden. But so let to run to ruine, both house and everything in and about it -so ill furnished and miserably looked after, I never did see in all my life. Not so much as a latch to his dining-room door - which saved him nothing, for the wind blowing into the room for want thereof, flung down a great Bowpott that stood upon the sidetable, and that fell upon some Venice-glasses and did him a crown's worth of hurt. He did give us the meanest dinner - of beef - shoulder and umbles of venison which he takes away from the keeper of the Forest - and a few pigeons; and all in the meanest manner that ever I did see - to the basest degree.

Despite being encased in brick at great expense in 1680, it was pulled down in 1755, and farm buildings were built on the site. By the late 1800's the whole area was railway sidings according to the old OS maps.

Old: London Review Bookshop, Bury Place, WC1

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New: Merry Christmas, everybody.

Something in the same space was tagged years ago, but I reckon it's not a re-tag.

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A shit year, but a good year for tagging.

I had thought that Xmas tree might be someone's Xmas day tag. But then, Germans, with their peculiar traditions and anarchic tendencies...

Well, Will, imagine my feelings when I saw you had ruined my plan to tag the London Review Bookshop on the occasion of the next Anarchist Bookfair. Now I'm probably going to have to make do with Bookmarks or Housmans or something similarly inappropriate.

Two punctures!

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Happy Christmas bike tag of bike lfgss, thanks for letting me play and nice to have met some of you this year, jah love

OLD: Merry Xmas tag nerds, from a busy Trafalgar Square.

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NEW: not too far away from Trafalgar Square.

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"Come on, John darling, they won't boo me"

Maiden voyage for the BJ tandem and my first tag in tiiime! Shouldn’t be hard this one.

Old: Sir John Guilgud’s gaff, 16 Cowley St.

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Cool posts.

OLD: Gielgud Theatre, Shaftsbury Avenue.

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NEW: From Les Miserables to Les Heureuses. Where is it? It's a place on earth. I'm having a rest for a few days now.

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Nice. Got it, but it’s going to be too cold to go it outside for the next week or so.

From Heaven (on Villiers Street)…

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