A Pictorial Quiz

[Stillhomewardbound]

Yes it would, Richard! Much impressed by your Daily Express connection, btw.

Salymap, I can't think of a church in Tooley Street, I'm afraid. As, SA suggests, probably Souhwark Cathedral, or futher down stream there's the parish church of rotherhithe and the wharf buildings where Tony Snowdon maintained a studio and once put up John Betjeman for a time.

[Richard Tarleton]

My great great grandfather, also an architect (my great grandfather married the boss's daughter ) was apparently involved with some repairs to St Paul's Cathedral, probably rather before 1900, and according to family tradition actually stood on (or next to) the cross on the dome. I have not yet had a chance to look into this any further.

[jayne lee wilson]

Ok, here's a kind of jigsaw puzzle quiz. You're looking a image of London from a less than touristic perspecive, but actually there's a lot of detail in this shot and the possibilty of identifying at least twelve significant architects.

Also, in the manner of RTWQ, I'm looking for directions to Rumpole's 'Pomeroy's', Dickens's 'Rochester Connection' and, putting the Fosters to one side a remembrance of 'ever loving Adelaide'.

Too many clues already and your time starts ... NOW!

A splendid view of Qatar-on-Thames...

[Stillhomewardbound]

Yes, it's pretty ghastly isn't it? And look at the horror due to rise near Blackfriars Bridge.

[Serial_Apologist]

I don't at all like these odd-shaped large new buildings, I have to say. So preferable to the old monotonous vertical skyscrapers, they say, but to be honest I feel rather nauseous if I look at them.

[Quarky]

This problem becomes obsessive!

Is that Centre point to the immediate left of The Shard (Richard Seifert)?

And a relatively small building in the centre, obscured by surrounding blocks, but formed as a rectangle joined to arcuate roof part might be the Savoy (D'Oyly Carte), or probably Charing Cross station (Hawkshaw)?

[Stillhomewardbound]

This problem becomes obsessive!

Is that Centre point to the immediate left of The Shard (Richard Seifert)?

And a relatively small building in the centre, obscured by surrounding blocks, but formed as a rectangle joined to arcuate roof part might be the Savoy (D'Oyly Carte), or probably Charing Cross station (Hawkshaw)?

Not, Centre Point. Think in the region of the old Capitol Radio.

No Charing Cross, it's an office building off Fleet Street.

Speaking of 'Fleet Street', there is visible the offices of a major newspaper in this vista.

[EdgeleyRob]

I don't at all like these odd-shaped large new buildings, I have to say. So preferable to the old monotonous vertical skyscrapers, they say, but to be honest I feel rather nauseous if I look at them.

The Manchester version.

[Stillhomewardbound]

Just to let you know I'll be posting the starter image marking out all the buildings I can recognise by the morning so get your final suggestions in. Hurry along there now! Mind the doors.

[gradus]

Newspaper offices? Posssibly Northern and Shell in Upper Thames Street or The Grauniad at Farringdon? Don't think the panorama includes The FT and The Sun buildings. Is that the Old Bailey and The Pearl building in High Holborn too, also the Shell Centre?
I'm lost on the architects other than those already named.
An extraordinary panorama and a fascinating game, many thanks for posting it.

[Stillhomewardbound]

STOP WRITING AND PUT YOUR PENS DOWN, PLEASE!

Now, exchange your papers with your neighbour and we'll go through the answers. So, here's our starting image which I've now indexed with the key below. In red letters I've indicated landmarks which I've not been able to identified, so I'd welcome further guesses on these.





1: BT Tower. Eric Bedford & GR Yeats

2: Civil Aviation Authority, Kingsway. Richard Seifert (Seifert mentioned earlier was indeed the Centre Point architect which would be off somewhere to left of the panorama)

3: London Bridge to Greenwich Railway Viaduct (London's longest spanned structure at 3.45 miles and over 870 arches. Just before Deptford the main lines leave the viaduct returning to ground level and taking passengers out to Kent and the likes of Chatham and Rochester, hence the Charles Dickens clue as he was a regular traveller on this route.)

4: Chimney Stack, Bankside Power Station: Giles Gilbert Scott

5: Guys Hospital, ??

The owners of the Shard are paying a large sum to humanise the Guy's Hospital tower with a variegated slate cladding, easily one of the city's ugliest structures. I haven't been able to establish who was responsible, or should that be irresponsible, for the design.

6: Euston Tower. Sidney Kaye

7. Shard. Renzo Piano

8: Guardian, King's Place. Dixon Jones (More impressive when seen from the other side at Street level. I have a picture of it somewhere and will try and dig it out)

9: St.Paul's Cathedral, Christopher Wren

10: Scales of Justice. F.W. Pomeroy, Old Bailey

John Mortimer took Pomeroy's name for Rumpole of the Bailey's favourite watering hole.

11: Adelaide House, London Bridge. Tait & Partners

London's first steel framed building, named after the wife of King William IV

12: City Hall, One More London. Sir Norman Foster

13: St.Paul's, Deptford. Thomas Archer

One of London's finest baroque churches


Unidentifed:


X: Two sets of spires either side of the 'x' which I've not been able to identify.

Y: Gold flag or spire top

W: White dovecoat

Z: Green spire

Q: White church spire (Now identified by Gradus as St.George's, Holborn)

R: Flag high

[mercia]

isn't City Hall just by Tower Bridge ? - one wouldn't have expected a building at London Bridge to appear slightly to the right of City Hall - I think I would expect to see a bit of Tower Bridge and the Tower of London - I suppose its because I keep thinking we're looking North, which we're not - I'm so used to looking at a North-South oriented map

the obscured curved roof I was referring to earlier is just below and to the left of your 8

great quiz

[salymap]

Yes it would, Richard! Much impressed by your Daily Express connection, btw.

Salymap, I can't think of a church in Tooley Street, I'm afraid. As, SA suggests, probably Souhwark Cathedral, or futher down stream there's the parish church of rotherhithe and the wharf buildings where Tony Snowdon maintained a studio and once put up John Betjeman for a time.

A member of my family knew the vicar and he and I received a newsletter called 'Over the Bridge' from the church,mostly about the changes to that partof London SHB. Where is Southwark Cathedral ??

[gradus]

q. St George's Holborn?

[salymap]

A member of my family knew the vicar and he and I received a newsletter called 'Over the Bridge' from the church,mostly about the changes to that partof London SHB. Where is Southwark Cathedral ??

EDIT Justseen above, yes must be the Cathedral,not been there myself.