London Transport Museum is hosting a Flickr scavenger hunt on Sunday 6th July in Covent Garden as part of the events for the London Festival of Architecture 2008. Focusing on the transport network's quirky design features, in a race against time teams of photographers will have to unlock a series of cryptic clues in order to snap roundels, station murals and much more. Have you got what it takes to get all the shots and make it back to the Museum? Prizes for the first team back (with the most correct answers), and - voted by the public - the best team and the best picture uploaded on Flickr.
 

 Team Dagenham's Blog » The Final Stretch - Clues 9, 3 and a failed 2

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So, with the end in sight, it was time to pick up the pace and head along Shaftesbury Avenue to Leicester Square station, to pick up clue 9: "An underground circle in a square. Oysters love this place!" Cheerfully ignoring the "oysters" part of the clue, we realised that the combination of square and circle was created by the London Transport roundel at Leicester Square.

When we reached the station, we realised that the square signs bearing the roundel added an extra level of square-circle-ness, and convinced ourselves that's what we were here to photograph.

So, without even heading underground, we snapped shots of a station roundel on Charing Cross Road:

Then we headed along Long Acre, to solve clue 3: "A tiled sign where Neal and James meet on a long piece of land" - the tiles in question could only be the ones above the entrance to Covent Garden station:

...where we encountered Team Bank, snapping their last clues. However, we still had clue number 2 to solve: "Eliza Doolittle moved out in 1974 only to be replaced with Frank Pick and Harry Beck."

Frankly, we had no idea. Those of us who'd seen Pygmalion or My Fair Lady associated Covent Garden Market with the plays, but had no idea whether this was the solution to the clue... so, in the hope of partial credit, and with the intention of pipping the Bankers to the "first back" position, we charged down James Street to snap the market on our way back to the Transport Museum.

The resulting shots, while very lovely...

...are unfortunately not the correct solution to the clue. :(

Hazel's Facebook-style summary of this post: Hazel is normally quite good at cryptic crosswords but is suffering from tourist-rage and unsuitable footwear to be of any use right now.

 

 

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