Google street view now covers Brixton

[teuchter]

No, do it the hard way please

I've just double checked with a sextant and a protractor and I can confirm that the time on the town hall clock is correct.

 

[Crispy]

You know the thing about sailors and eyepatches, right?

 

[teuchter]

You know the thing about sailors and eyepatches, right?

Above-deck and below-deck eyes?

I didn't but I do now, thanks to Wikipedia.

 

[Crispy]

Oh. I didn't know that one. I always thought it was from going blind from staring at the sun too mutch when using a sextant.

The daylight/indoors eye explanation makes much more sense

 

[ovaltina]

That's brilliant - no more work for the rest of this week...

 

[Crispy]

Nobody spotted an urbanite yet then?

 

[editor]

I took a picture of the Google car in action on Charing Cross Road so felt sure I'd be in it - but I'm nowhere to be seen

 

[Ms T]

Nobody spotted an urbanite yet then?

You can see our car outside our house!

 

[Not a Vet]

It must have been either a weekend or during the school holidays as our front window is open

 

[brix]

Nor mine, nor Brixton Hill, nor New Park Road

They have done New Park Road. Look, Lawrence's is open, and I think that's Nell standing outside the deli

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...m_source=en-ha-na-us-google-svn&utm_medium=ha

Eta: Dammit, I just clicked on that link to check it and it just takes you to the home page . But New Park Road is def on there.

 

[skyscraper101]

LOL at the blurred out pint drinkers outside the albert! It's like an advert from Crimestoppers

DO YOU KNOW THESE MEN??

 

[Crispy]

Half way down kellet road... WTF is that SEX POLICE van?

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Had a look at my old road. Most disappointed not to see the cats outside.

 

[brix]

They have done New Park Road. Look, Lawrence's is open, and I think that's Nell standing outside the deli

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...m_source=en-ha-na-us-google-svn&utm_medium=ha

Eta: Dammit, I just clicked on that link to check it and it just takes you to the home page . But New Park Road is def on there.

^^^^ Just realised that was my 2000th post. It's only taken me 3 years and 9 months to get to this marker.

 

[teuchter]

The daylight/indoors eye explanation makes much more sense

I think I'm going to get an eyepatch and try it out some time.

 

[handyman121]

All the places I wanted to look at have got a double decker bus in front of them !!!

 

[quimcunx]

They haven't done my road.

Never mind. Maybe they will have done the new one, wherever it is.

Nor mine, nor Brixton Hill, nor New Park Road

They did do Brixton Hill. They've done my flat too.

I'm not at the window with no clothes on, thankfully.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

I find it quite unnerving.
*wraps house in tinfoil*

 

[Tank Girl]

We've still got our scaffolding up, how all the memories come flooding back

there's a portaloo outside our house

 

[nick h.]

Does this give a clue to the date? An Evg Std headline about a Queen gig or something?


http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...bp=12,117.13834088238414,,3,8.214285714285735

 

[teuchter]

I think it says "Queen Hit by Credit Crunch".

 

[teuchter]

It's interesting that they seem to have some sort of software that blurs out peoples faces and some text. Not all text though; the shop signs on the other side of the street are completely legible.

 

[nick h.]

Good call! That was on 27th June

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/stand...ession:+Queen+hit+by+credit+crunch/article.do

 

[nick h.]

Here's another headline for you to work out...Southwark buses.....?
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...bp=12,344.2901011512122,,3,13.358889751552816

This is 150 Acre Lane, taken on 14th July

 

[quimcunx]

Southwark loses ..... of funding ......?

 

[nick h.]

This is Clapham Park Road, outside Sairam TK News, taken on 14th July.


Southwark loses 91% of parking appeals, and Oyster card free for all
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou....129583&spn=0.006966,0.013819&z=16&iwloc=addr

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/stand...n+up+to+94+of+parking+fine+appeals/article.do

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/stand...n+up+to+94+of+parking+fine+appeals/article.do

 

[Bob]

It's interesting that they seem to have some sort of software that blurs out peoples faces and some text. Not all text though; the shop signs on the other side of the street are completely legible.

The text bit is very odd. It's blurred out the Prince Regent's menu board.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Half way down kellet road... WTF is that SEX POLICE van?

stripper ?

 

[teuchter]

The text bit is very odd. It's blurred out the Prince Regent's menu board.

Maybe it thinks they are car registration plates.

 

[Crispy]

I've noticed several blurred out letterboxes that have those 'no junk mail' stickers