Whitechapel Road

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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...