London

Squares completed so far:

• Whitechapel Road
• Coventry Street

Instructions for the Monopoly London game: see Go

Go

Here's how you get going - you head for a square from Monopoly and (i) find and photograph the road sign for that place then (ii) photograph something there the right colour for the square in question. Round off with a brief description of the trip. That's it. Simple as A B. Simple as 1 2. Simple as G O...

I'd love to hear about your Monopoly London trip via a link in the comments or however takes your fancy...

Mayfair

Park Lane

Liverpool Street Station

Bond Street

Oxford Street

Regent Street

Piccadilly

Water works

Coventry Street

1.xii.12
OK, it's a year and a bit since I kicked off this game and frankly I'm a bit rusty. I forgot to shoot the street sign so here's a placeholder til I get back there later this week. It comes courtesy of Sam Holmes who seems to have been on a Monopoly pub crawl when he took it, so clearly a kindred spirit.

But I did find the yellow thing when I stopped for a quick hot chocolate with my nephew, Finn, on Piccadilly (£280). Here it is, suitably childish for a day out with a not quite ten year old.

So we surfaced at Leicester Square (£260), walked along the North side of the newly revamped square, along today's street - Coventry Street is very much an in-between street, no-one ever really refers to it in its own right outside of Monopoly contexts - and took a left down Lower Regent Street to check out our destination: the Apollo Regent Street cinema, for a viewing of Skyfall for BAFTA. Finding ourselves with a bit of time on our hands before kick-off we headed down Jermyn Street, up the alley to Piccadilly for that aforementioned hot chocolate. So that's all the yellows in one go but it was at Coventry Street I was reminded of this game so that's where this entry falls. A quick glance in Hatchards (est. 1797 so the oldest bookshop in London), picked up some sweeties before the show, then back to the cinema where we finished all the sweets before the Columbia Pictures logo in time honoured fashion. Enjoyed the movie even better second time round (first viewing was at the Savoy in Dublin with the Enfants Terribles, the last big screen in O'Connell Street). After the screening in came no lesser villain than Xavier Bardem. In the ensuing Q&A Finn asked him a good solid question: How did you do that thing when you take out your teeth and your face collapses? After politely warning him to brush his teeth regularly, the charming Spaniard explained the process of the special effect. He also apologised for swearing before noticing the presence of a junior member in the audience. Very charming and sympathetic. So our Coventry Street adventure was suitably thespian.

Leicester Square

Fenchurch Street Station

Trafalgar Square

Fleet Street

Strand

Free Parking

Vine Street

Marlborough Street

Bow Street

Marylebone Station

Northumberland Avenue

Whitehall

Electric Company

Pall Mall

Jail

Pentonville Road

Euston Road

The Angel Islington

Kings Cross Station

Whitechapel Road

11.ix.11
Got the game under way to mark my birthday. Here's the road sign (not easy to find as the road changes name to Whitechapel High Street somewhere around Aldgate East tube) and they don't bother with it in the Mile End Road direction, so just this one scrappy one behind bars to be found:

And here's the Brown Thing from the area:

So the Enfants Terribles accompanied the birthday boy from over towards Old Street, via Commercial Street past my grandfather's old art deco factory on the corner of Hanbury Street (now reverted back to schmutter with All Saints HQ) to Christ Church Spittlefields where I treated myself to a celebratory coffee and them to cake. Into Huguenot territory down  Fournier to Princelet, where my bro got married. A spontaneous visit to an old synagogue, specially opened for the day, further down Princelet - it was closed in the 60s. South down Brick Lane to reach the actual £60 Brown street. Round the corner for the Brown Thing. Past various graffiti, the other way up Brick Lane with a brief bookshop stop to buy the ETs Mr Men mugs. Rounded off with a chopped herring bagel from The Usual Place top of Brick Lane and looped back beneath the Old Nichol (gore blimey) back to our wheels. Old Kent Road beckons for the set...

Old Kent Road

Monopoly London