Bicycle Tag of bike

Hipster.

You can tell by the hat.

Huh, didn't recognise Percy Circus at all. Used to go round there every day.

Kept wanting to do Percy Circus but never had the wide angle lens with me :(

I was going to do a 360 panorama in the centrees but there were people and I got self-conscious.

New tag is great! Has there been an inside one before? I had an idea about tags that are very easy to recognise but challenging to get the photo.

Tags have to be accessible too... generally meaning around the clock as you don't know when someone will get there.

Most indoor tags that could be had would fall foul of that. There's part of outdoors London which would fall foul of it too.

Old: Jeremy Bentham's "Auto Icon", UCL South Cloisters, just upstairs from where I park my bike.

New: From utilitarians to utensils

Oooh - know it but can't get out for a bit. Grrr.

rhymes with butler

on my way...

Fantastic reliefs on that building!

Euph?

worshipful company of cutlers:

this seat could be shocking:

^ sorry - teeny blurry photo, but I'm sure you get the idea...

haha that photo is shocking!

adds to the mystique, innit.

and you need to clean the lens!

bugger!

Sorry Atticus, I got it on my way to work. I was worrying through an hour-long seminar in case someone beat me to it while the photos were sitting on my phone!

hoorah, I know one. But will it be open when I get out of work?

So, Jeremy Bentham fact time ...

as well as being a utilitarian, inventing a type of prison, and saying things like 'nonsense on stilts', JB thought that you should be your own funerary monument. He thought that large houses would have an avenue of preserved ancestors up to the front door, while more modest homes might just have granny's head on the mantlepiece ... hence his auto icon.

hoorah, I know one. But will it be open when I get out of work?

Very impressive, BQ.

But no, I don't think it will be. Doesn't really help the tagging - sorry.

Right, does this count as getting the tag?
It was shut when I got there. Denied by 10 minutes.
But hopefully you can see by the details that I got the right place.

If so, here's your new tag... Apologies for romantic soft focus. Camera phone.

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I remember driving by the last tag a couple of years ago and wondering what it was. I'd forgotten all about it but now my curiosity has been satisfied. An electricity substation FFS!

Brown Hart Gardens.

The gardens began life as the Duke Street Gardens where a communal garden was laid for what were then working class dwellings in Brown Street and Hart Street.

In 1902 the building of the Duke Street Electricity Substation led to the removal of the street level gardens. The substation was completed in 1905 to the design of C. Stanley Peach in a Baroque style from Portland stone featuring a pavilion and steps at either end, a balustrade and Diocletian windows along the sides to light the galleries of the engine rooms, and deep basements.

In order to compensate local residents for the loss of the old communal garden, the Duke of Westminster insisted that a paved Italian garden featuring trees in tubs be placed on top of the substation. The deck of the property was open to the public as an ornamental garden until the 1980s when it was closed by the then lessees, the London Electricity Board.

In 2007 plans were announced to revamp the site and the site was reopened to the public after 20 years of closure in October 2007.

paved Italian garden featuring trees in tubs be placed on top of the substation

I agree, it's quite a sight - one of my favourite London curiosities, great place for a sandwich away from the chaos of Oxford St. There's a high voltage cable tunnel 100 ft below from there to another substation deep under Leicester Sq - the vent of that one's disguised as the Half Price Ticket Booth

nice new tag! actually several good ones on this page,
and a revolution courier- I had one of them, loved it! don't see them in London very often