Reply to: Obscure london places quiz - answer and ask

[MrToast]

There is a reason why the climb from Archway to Highgate is so steep though. It's to keep out Chavs and drunks

Agreed. Archway is the devils a-hole. Some 'interesting' characters (usually demanding/asking for 20p?) assemble there late on weekend evenings.

[SantaClaus]

Your back garden and Highgate public toilets !

Some partially correct answers.

It was the gay mens' bathing pond at Hampstead Heath and the public toilets opposite Elstree and Borehamwood Station.

[eliquant]

Ok, this one includes an area just on the edges of London:

Name 2 places in or around London that George Michael has been found in lewd conduct?

Your back garden and Highgate public toilets !

[Ruprect]

Suicide bridge was actually a tunnel which collapsed due to poor engineering. So they dug it out as a big trench and built a bridge over the new chasm.

Returning to the last question



Hampstead Heath is one. LA is another but that's not really "around London".

He was found drug-driving around hyde park too (asleep at the wheel IIRC) too; not sure it's "lewd" though...

[swamp]

Suicide bridge was actually a tunnel which collapsed due to poor engineering. So they dug it out as a big trench and built a bridge over the new chasm.

Returning to the last question

Name 2 places in or around London that George Michael has been found in lewd conduct?

Hampstead Heath is one. LA is another but that's not really "around London".

[SantaClaus]

There must me some truth in it then. I expect part of its grim charm is the view it affords of the Archway Tower, that houses the offices of the DSS, CSA and various other government agencies that might have driven the suicidee* there in the first place.


*or suicidant. Amounts to the same thing.

The council keep on asking how they can make Archway nicer, whilst conveniently ignoring the glaring answer to knock down the tower.

There is a reason why the climb from Archway to Highgate is so steep though. It's to keep out Chavs and drunks

But the reward for a would be suicide case who can make it up the hill to Suicide Bridge and over the high railings is death into the oncoming traffic of the Archway road.

[thunderlizard]

There must me some truth in it then. I expect part of its grim charm is the view it affords of the Archway Tower, that houses the offices of the DSS, CSA and various other government agencies that might have driven the suicidee* there in the first place.


*or suicidant. Amounts to the same thing.

[SantaClaus]

Ok, this one includes an area just on the edges of London:

Name 2 places in or around London that George Michael has been found in lewd conduct?

[SantaClaus]

The Suicide Bridge - anecdotally a popular place to lob yourself off, though I'm not sure how true that is.

Yep, you got it. And I have seen the bridge cordoned off by police twice since I lived here.

[realityhack]

Cleopatra's Needle? (Lions either side.)

Nope, but you're thinking along the right lines.

[swamp]

A gents toilet, where Joe Meek was arrested for soliciting unmanly love.

What features of a famous London landmark were made by recycling some of Napoleon's cannons?

Cleopatra's Needle? (Lions either side.)

[realityhack]

The Suicide Bridge - anecdotally a popular place to lob yourself off, though I'm not sure how true that is.

Another one from that area: what used to be on Madras Place that made it a popular meeting place for certain elements of the 1960s underworld?

A gents toilet, where Joe Meek was arrested for soliciting unmanly love.

What features of a famous London landmark were made by recycling some of Napoleon's cannons?

[thunderlizard]

Ok, here's a question then:

What do the locals nickname the bridge at Hornsey Lane, Highgate that crosses the A1, and why?

The Suicide Bridge - anecdotally a popular place to lob yourself off, though I'm not sure how true that is.

Another one from that area: what used to be on Madras Place that made it a popular meeting place for certain elements of the 1960s underworld?

[SantaClaus]

Ok, here's a question then:

What do the locals nickname the bridge at Hornsey Lane, Highgate that crosses the A1, and why?

[realityhack]

Sorry, I thought - George Orwell? was his question!

Ah, fair enough!