Monday, August 31, 2009

Manor Cafe, Manor Rd, Hackney, London N16, United Kingdom

Right in the middle of one of those mystery gaps in Street View...

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Figaro Barbers, 354 Walworth Rd, Southwark, London SE17, United Kingdom


14:24. Business was different from Maps.

Google Search: figaro barbers se17


I went to get some flowers from Cascade Florists on Walworth Road and found it had turned into this barbers shop. Figaro, London SE17 Figaro, London SE17 ...

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Domestic Appliences, Black Horse Lane E17

Blackhorse Road - Not Blackhorse Lane. Luckily the "...MILL LANE E17" sign was a nice strong clue/
Also notice the yellow signs have been painted over and the business has changed...

Friday, August 28, 2009

Eagle Car Service 206 Stoke Newington High Street N16



45 secs. The Street Number is on the signage.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Spanish Tapas Bar 32 Fulham Palace Road SW6

14:52 Lurking within the shadows of the Hammersmith Flyover. At THE VERY END of another long, long London road.

Rose Bakery, 423 Green Lanes, Harringay London, N4 1EY

11:14. A long road, full of Turkish & Greek restaurants.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Shoe Repairs 300 Walworth Road SE17 London

12:23. Long road. Had to resort to a Google search for the address.

Google Search: Shoe repairs Walworth Road SE17

Others are mapping & cataloguing London...

These visual directories are quite comprehensive but also look quite, er, automated.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Tea Rooms, 11 Museum Street WC1A

45 seconds. Easy - once I spotted the street number on the door.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Abba Electronics, 236 Kentish Town Rd NW5

1:12. Easy. Already marked in Google Maps.

The Shop, 161 Whitecross Street EC1

3:51. What a funky little shopping strip.

Vietnamese Canteen - 79 Stoke Newington High Street N16

9:15. Phew, harder, because Stoke Newington High Street is a long road. And the business has emerged since the Googlemobile passed by. (Er, then I noticed the street numbers on the door of the shop next door. Doh!)

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Rima's Food & Wine 44 Exmouth Market EC1R 4QE

Found in 2:21 seconds. This pedestrian street needs a visit from the Google Tricycle.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

58 High Street Colliers Wood SW19

This took me longer to find than usual - but the strongest clue was the bike rack out the front. Time: 5 mins.

Sunday, August 16, 2009