A Pictorial Quiz

[Quarky]

Yes, great quiz. Have all problems been solved?
By the way, is that a Windmill I espy immediately above the Y on the green horizon, which I assume is Epping district?

[Stillhomewardbound]

I did live in London, I doubt if I would recognise it now, it just looks like something transplanted from Dubai, soul less, anonymous. Dreadful. I don't want to go back there.

Going back in time, my London ancestors were all wedded, bedded, and christened at St. Leonards, Shoreditch (which was used by the BBC series Rev) I think that is a lovely Church.

Shoreditch and Spitalfields have been so appallingly gentrified, full of young trendies and no sign of the East London community that one existed there. I know from experience having worked near Hoxton Square for years recently. I used to go and sit in the gardens of St.Leonards when the weather was decent and they'd be shooting for Rev. What an excellent, intelligent comedy that is!

[Stillhomewardbound]

Thanks SHB - I was interested in finding aerial views of my district but don't have an ipad as happens.

SA - sounds like your not familiar with Google Earth which you can download on to your PC, so it's not iPad specific. It has the lot: streetview, satellite, 3D and you can whiz around the planet on it.

[Stillhomewardbound]

Yes, great quiz. Have all problems been solved?
By the way, is that a Windmill I espy immediately above the Y on the green horizon, which I assume is Epping district?

No, we still have four letters unidentified.

Re windmills, I'll have to take a closer look, but I suspect it's just a clump of tree. I will look into that though, Oddball. Thanks. They don't have this much fun on University Challenge!

[Nick Armstrong]

There's lots of Olde London still to be found, Anna - I was cycling around Kensington the other week and found still recogniseable buildings that once comprised a farmyard. Lots still to love. It's really only the City, the original district of Southwark where Shakespeare and his buddies used to hang out, and the Isle of Dogs, that have undergone drastic changes.

Riding back on the last Thames Clipper service upriver from Greenwich, getting shb's angle on things from the water Standing out on deck, London looks pretty great to me with a little river spray on the specs plus I have RVW 2 on the iPod

[mercia]

well I have Google Earth but I'm unable to reproduce the low-angled photo in #34

if we're still looking for the Z green spire, what approximate location is it likely to be, do we think ?

[Stillhomewardbound]

I was trying to find that old church in Tooley Street, near the river and London Bridge.

No it's all changed too much for me

Sallymap, could this be what you're looking for? I knew I had a view somewhere in the archive so I had a rummage around. I'm only sorry that Southwark Cathedral appears to be in such 'low' company.

[Quarky]

well I have Google Earth but I'm unable to reproduce the low-angled photo in #34

if we're still looking for the Z green spire, what approximate location is it likely to be, do we think ?

Directions are confusing, but it might be the church at the top of Highgate Hill.
Otherwise Muswell Hill?
Then the ground is flat -Lea Valley -until we get east to Epping district.

There is another church spire on horizon way to the left, which might be a church in hampstead, near parliament hill fields.

[mercia]

Directions are confusing, but it might be the church at the top of Highgate Hill.
Otherwise Muswell Hill?
Then the ground is flat -Lea Valley -until we get east to Epping district.

There is another church spire on horizon way to the left, which might be a church in hampstead, near parliament hill fields.

oh, as far away as that - I had assumed it was closer to us than that Guardian building, though to be honest I can hardly make out a green spire in the gloomy twilight

[Quarky]

I'm just guessing, mercia.

[muzzer]

Interesting that so many new eyesores have been approved during the slump since '08. I wonder if similar spurts can be traced to similar periods in the past. The skyline of London truly looks like one of those pix they'd have on Blue Peter of "The Future", back in the 70s.

[gradus]

Re x and y, they seem to be around the The Monument, St Magnus area but I can't resolve the pic to see clearly enough.

[Stillhomewardbound]

Interesting that so many new eyesores have been approved during the slump since '08. I wonder if similar spurts can be traced to similar periods in the past. The skyline of London truly looks like one of those pix they'd have on Blue Peter of "The Future", back in the 70s.

I heard a chap who had worked in the City for Years who suggested that these buildings represented the spike of excess and were usually followed directly by a slump. No 42 (formerly the Natwest Tower) completed in 1981 and One Canada Square (aka Canary Wharf) being conspicuous examples.

[Stillhomewardbound]

Right now, this quiz has me driven half mad meself. However, I believe I now have a couple of more answers:

To the left of X there's a four steepled church which might be St.Michael's Cornhill. It's in the right place for that.

To the right of the X where you see four gold features I'm at a complete loss for.

Y is Grace Church on Gracechurch Street but while it appears to have a gold crest, it doesn't.

That wave of gold is on another building off in the distance and here I'm going to stick my kneck out and suggest that it is Charles Wheeler's figure of Ariel which sits above the north east corner of Soane's Bank of England.

http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/misc/wheeler1.html

Z is not anything Hampstead, nor Muswell Hill. By my reckoning they lie behind the screen of buildings to the right of the Shard.

I reckon I'll have to wait for a cold, clear afternoon and photograph the scene again and hope to get a bit more detail.

I've started something here and I'm determined to finish it. Dammit!

[gradus]

Still trying!
Could the building to the right of x be the two towers on the old Bryant and May factory at Bow?