A Pictorial Quiz

[Stillhomewardbound]

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!

[mercia]

that's quite a mess isn't it
if that's the BT Tower left, were Bedford & Yeats significant architects ? I can only find one thing attributed to them.
are there architects called Sinatra ? looking forward to being told where that church in the foreground is.
is this the view from your kitchen window ?

[Quarky]

that's quite a mess isn't it
is this the view from your kitchen window ?

I will bag the obvious one for the church in the background - Christopher Wren. Some years ago I tried to find information on the Saxon church which preceded St. Paul's cathedral - but information appeared scant.

Church in foreground looks familiar, but I can't identify it - it looks like All Hallows by the Tower, but it the wrong place.

Possibly taken from London Bridge Southwark area looking north?

[Richard Tarleton]

My great grandfather's 1932 black glass Art Deco Daily Express building is tucked away in Fleet Street out of sight

[Stillhomewardbound]

Possibly taken from London Bridge Southwark area looking north?

No, not my kithchen window!. The picture's actually taken from as far away as Blackheath, looking North East. That foreground church can be found off Deptford High Street.

[mercia]

so what have we got

St Paul's Deptford - Thomas Archer
St Paul's Cathedral - Wren
Shard - Piano
BT Tower ? - Bedford & Yeats

that's the best I can do

[Nick Armstrong]

My great grandfather's 1932 black glass Art Deco Daily Express building is tucked away in Fleet Street out of sight

Excellent Richard! How interesting. I cycle past it every day, it's a treat

I'll take the second erection from the left (as the actress said) - excluding cranes that is - which is the old smoke-stack of Bankside Power Station aka Tate Modern, and hence the work of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (cf also Battersea Power Station, Liverpool Cathedral, the classic old phone box etc etc)

[mercia]

I haven't really got my orientation, but can we see a little bit of the curved roof of Charing Cross station ? - Terry Farrell & Partners

no, can't be

[Serial_Apologist]

The Shard is by Renzo Piano - far too fortissimo imo.

The considerable foreshortening of the view makes orientation very difficult, but beyond buildings already cited I don't think I'm any more knowledgeable than anyone else in here.

[salymap]

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

[Nick Armstrong]

The picture's actually taken from as far away as Blackheath, looking North East.

No! The Shard is due south-east from St Paul's - for the Shard to appear closer and to the left of St Paul's, you have to be looking west-north-west - which you would be from the northern reaches of Blackheath.

[Stillhomewardbound]

I haven't really got my orientation, but can we see a little bit of the curved roof of Charing Cross station ? - Terry Farrell & Partners

no, can't be

It had me thinking the same, Mercia, but it's over by the City, that way. I've found it on my 3D googles map and it's just off Fleet Street on Shoe Lane. Looks even more gruesome close up and yes, Thomas Archer for St.Paul's, Deptford, though I did give that away rather.

Caliban - Currrect.


Well done, class, so far, but you'll have to look closer, and Serial Apologist Minor, I'll do the jokes! That's you filling the ink wells for the next week. YES, isn't life unfair.

Ok, some more clues (oh I may be hedging my bets a bit here):

Think Boris and that will also get you to Adelaide ..

a notable tower ..

An unusual rotunda ..

A viaduct ..

A guy with a facelift ..

... and don't forget those early clues re Rumpole and Foster.


Btw, anyone notice that Post Office tower (as it will always be to me!) has been denuded of it's satellites and signal drums?

[vinteuil]

... jolly clever, these people who can imagine what London might look like when seen from south of the river

[Serial_Apologist]

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

Southwark Cathedral appears to be the only church in the immediate vicinity there, saly - just south-west of the southern end of London Bridge, on the map.

[Richard Tarleton]

Erm - tilting my A-Z round clockwise, that curved thing wouldn't be Norman Foster's London Mayor's building would it? Meaning Tower Bridge just out of shot to the right?