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London Development Agency - one of the coloured lights in the ceiling.

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JudyGr says:

or is it the light at the end of the tunnel......?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

jennyshayler says:

this is amazing... it looks like a bubble.. very unearthly
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

myrtlemount says:

eons ago there were those strange tethered balloons at London Bridge. Is it something of that ilk?
Incredible whatever it is.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

a2d says:

i'm not old enough to remember eons ago - was it during the blitz? tee hee - ahem - sorry. it's not a balloon and it's not particularly near london bridge either
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Our neighbour has the tethering equipment for a barage balloon in her garden. The concrete is so dense it has never been shifted.
Were you then looking up a chimney you young whipper snapper you? Perhaps at Battersea?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

a2d says:

wow - if that was in my garden i'd definitely have sorted out some sort of balloon by now. or perhaps a balloon-supported death slide to work...

not a chimney and not in battersea.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

myrtlemount says:

I wish there was a slide down our hill - and a chair lift up it!
Well I shall sit back and see what this is - intrigued as ever :-)
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

noj.johnson says:

That looks like the moon in the middle , can't figure out how the tube doesn't have a clearly defined edge
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Steve J says:

Carston Holler at the Tate?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

a2d says:

noj - it does doesn't it. i was thinking of calling it "view of the moon from the bottom of the well", but i don't like long titles.

steve - good guess but no.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

jennyshayler says:

is it a light bulb?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

a2d says:

the light is coming from a light bulb, yes.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

noj.johnson says:

is it a view of the moon through one of those coin operated telescopes?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

myrtlemount says:

It's not one of the lights at Charing Cross? I think Helen had a shot of these a month or so ago. I'm off to check it out.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

myrtlemount says:

this is from Helen 2006
www.flickr.com/photos/helen61/274052899/
is it that sort of thing?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

jennyshayler says:

ah so is it a street lamp then? you're looking up at it?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

myrtlemount says:

not many of them in London so we should narrow this down fairly quickly
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

jennyshayler says:

well i think it must be somewhere quite open if it is indeed a street lamp... otherwise there'd be too much light pollution. although this is london... hmm. maybe in a park.. or over a bridge.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

DannyVandal says:

Maybe it's an uplighter?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Glenntheben says:

Is it looking through a telescope though - even if its not the moon?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

a2d says:

sorry - bit of catch up:

noj - definitely a light bulb
myrtle - not a light in charing cross
jenny - it's not a streetlight - public but not municipal
dankus - not an uplighter
glenn - no optical instruments beyond my camera were used in the making of this pic

phew
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

sonofwalrus says:

I'm stumped but it's fascinating whatever it is!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

myrtlemount says:

Is this an all year round light or some minimalist Christmas one?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

a2d says:

what happened to "sitting back" myrtle? this is an all-year-round light.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

myrtlemount says:

well work is rather stressful today so I thought I'd check in to chill out - oh and I caught sight of the lights on the front of my beloved Coli this morning and thought ...mmm from underneath they'd look a bit like that but there were would be far more light pollution.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

a2d says:

gotcha. nice to know GWL relieves stress...i thought it just provoked mild mental illness :)
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Baron von Beerfest says:

Stress relief?! I'm still trying to regain my sanity after 2 ½ miles from Whitehall!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

myrtlemount says:

the maddening thing is that the white part isn't symmetrical which is making me more and more bemused as to which bit is actually the bulb.
This just goes to show how stressful my job is that I find this relaxing by comparison!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Steve J says:

There are some rather bare looking Christmas bulbs hanging around in Carnaby Street at the moment.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

myrtlemount says:

Perhaps we could have a "which Christmas Decorations" thread. Those of you not familiar with the London Borough of Lewisham would be truly amazed to see the beauty that bedecks our streets. I'm beginging to think this is mondoagogos eye inverted and a2d is just teasing us with the idea it is a bulb.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

a2d says:

would i be so devious? probably...

time for a clue - surf and turf
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

myrtlemount says:

oh now I see. It's a bulls eye with a dollop of caviar in the middle. How could I have missed it!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

a2d says:

ewww. stop it. ok that might be a bit obscure i admit...erm...this is between a song from the White Album and the album featuring King Kong Song.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

crash the rocks says:

you're having a larf with this one!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

myrtlemount says:

As in the Abba album Waterloo - oh bugger this is somewhere down on the embankment then isn't it.
Were you dangling at some ridiculous angle - or flying by on your bike
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

a2d says:

is that you or your other half crash the rocks?

myrtle - you know your abba. and the beatles tune? not on the embankment - south of the river.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

DannyVandal says:

'snot in the NFT is it, one of those weird bubble things that pop up beside Waterloo Bridge?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

a2d says:

'snot the nufty. and not that close to waterloo - abba was only one half of the clue...
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

myrtlemount says:

amm thought the Beatles was Savoy.
Oh is that mad elephant still there? Mind you you'd have needed a ladder for that.
So is it something to do with the aquarium ?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

a2d says:

I got blisters on my fingers from all this typing...not the aquarium and not savoy
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

tiny_tear says:

Are you sure this is guessable? I am tempted to add it to the 'unacceptable' thread! (just because i have no idea what it is)
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

DannyVandal says:

Between the Savoy and Waterloo are basically the Thames and Waterloo Bridge and can't be on the south side of the bridge. So, a light for the stairs that descend to ground level on from the north side of the bridge?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

a2d says:

well go ahead if you really think it isn't guessable. this is a distinctive feature of a place that has appeared on GWL numerous times, taken from a slightly different perspective. it doesn't seem to have stopped other people guessing...
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

a2d says:

cross post. dankus - the savoy is a red herring thrown into the ring by myrtlemount - the clue is another beatles song from the white album...
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

DannyVandal says:

Oh. I thought it was the Savoy as well.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

DannyVandal says:

So, is it between the USSR and Waterloo?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

a2d says:

it could be where I stop and I turn and then I go for a ride :)
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

DannyVandal says:

Is it taken from inside one of those tubes at the Tate Modern that people can slide down? Don't know the name of the 'artist' I'm afraid.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

a2d says:

it's not but i was on my way to waterloo from visiting them when i took this pic
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

DannyVandal says:

An extreme close up of one of the lights underneath the bridge that make up a number. Near Blackfriars Road. Burrell St? This is driving me mentaaaaal.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

DannyVandal says:

One of these
www.flickr.com/photos/getdown/309475951/
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

a2d says:

'fraid not - but you're very close now.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

DannyVandal says:

I'm beat.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

DannyVandal says:

You've broken me.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

a2d says:

yay for me. ok, i'll start proper clueing soon...
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

a2d says:

so, to sum up what we have so far... it's a light, i'm looking up at it, it's not a streetlight, it's between Waterloo and Tate Modern and it is very near blackfriars road.

the next clue is that if this picture for guess where london wasn't underexposed, it would be a lot more colourful...perhaps it needs re-development?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

partyhatgirl [deleted] says:

At first I thought it was some sort of devise to look inside your eyeball. Very cool.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

myrtlemount says:

ok were you looking into a disused bottle doing research for you impending experiments?
I'm going away tonight and this is going to drive me mad not knowing!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

DannyVandal says:

Is this part of the new building going up opposite Southwark tube?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

a2d says:

ladies and gentlemen - we have a winner! looking up into one of the recessed lights of the new(ish) London Development Agency building opposite Southwark tube - well done!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

DannyVandal says:

I can't quite believe it, I may have to take a trip up there to see the light in real life, a pilgrimage for my own sanity.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

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