Adam Dant’s London Rebus
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Contributing Artist ADAM DANT created this ingenious puzzle to amuse you while staying at home this weekend. Here are the answers:
Marylebone, Harley Street, Telecom Tower, UCL, Oxford Street, Broadcasting House, Bloomsbury, Hyde Park Serpentine, Marble Arch, Mayfair, Fortnum & Mason, Soho, Ritz, Claridges, Belgravia, Victoria, Buckingham Palace, Lambeth Palace, The Mall, Jermyn Street, Houses of Parliament, Covent Garden, St Giles, Waterloo, The Cut, Somerset House, Holborn, Aldwych, Fleet Street, Blackfriars, Tate Modern, Borough, Cannon Street, St Paul’s, Tower Hill, London Assembly, Bermondsey, Royal Mint, Fenchurch Street, Aldgate, Bank of England, Guildhall, St Bart’s, Barbican, Bunhill, Liverpool Street, Shoreditch, Hoxton, Spitalfields, Hackney, Moorfields, Finsbury, Hatton Garden, St Pancras, British Museum, Clerkenwell.
We received more than thirty correct entries. The twenty readers below were the first to submit their answers and Maps of Spitalfields Life are in the mail to them.
Ele Aaser
Lucinda Acland
Ayla Bedric
Rebekah Bristow
Clare Britton
Andrew Collingridge
Sue Davis
Sarah Dawson
Lucy Fawcett
Richard Fearn
Anne Flavell
Sean Galvin
Peter Halston
Julia Harrison
David Hunter
Martin Peterson
David Rees
Lynn Roffee
Kerry Sewell
John White
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Adam Dant’s MAPS OF LONDON & BEYOND is a mighty monograph collecting together all your favourite works by Spitalfields Life‘s Contributing Cartographer in a beautiful big hardback book.
Including a map of London riots, the locations of early coffee houses and a colourful depiction of slang through the centuries, Adam Dant’s vision of city life and our prevailing obsessions with money, power and the pursuit of pleasure may genuinely be described as ‘Hogarthian.’
Unparalleled in his draughtsmanship and inventiveness, Adam Dant explores the byways of London’s cultural history in his ingenious drawings, annotated with erudite commentary and offering hours of fascination for the curious.
The book includes an extensive interview with Adam Dant by The Gentle Author.
Adam Dant’s limited edition prints including THE LONDON REBUS are available to purchase through TAG Fine Arts
Very good. There are two I am struggling with, so may succumb to a map in the end. I loved the phonic aspect but, most of all, this kind of puzzle took me back to my childhood.
The same as Bailey Jones says – stuck on two! Bet it’s the same two. Have even looked at a map and still baffled. Partner and parents equally stuck. Please put us out of our misery!
London born, but only lived there 4 months before decamping to Hampshire for 4+ years, then to California. Gave it a good shot, got (I think) 44, with 2 additional partials and 10 I couldn’t get.
Anybody care to fill in the ones I’m missing? and proof the ones I think I got?
partials:
HYDE PARK ________ SERPENTINE
SUMMER ________ HOUSE
Here are my thoughts on the ones I didn’t get:
top left quadrant
BULL + GOURD – GO + F + STREET
BULLFURD STREET
couldn’t find this in London
top left quadrant
GOURD – G + BR + CAR + BEE + MOUSE – M + H
BRORD CAR BEE HOUSE
could be a wasp?
top left quadrant
GRAVES + SEAL?
top left quadrant
carriages plus a trailer + L
completely stumped on this one!
top right quadrant:
GUMBY + EEL + DS
or is it WAVES? HI?
top right quadrant
COW/BULL + H + TON
CHOWTON?
top right quadrant
RABBIT/HARE + MILL – M + H
RABBIT HILL?
HARE HILL?
bottom left quadrant
there’s what looks like a cookie. but it could be a wafer.
WAYFAIR?
bottom right quadrant:
the sound a sheep makes: baaa
the sound a lion makes: roar
BAROUR?
bottom right quadrant
TREE – R + H CAT – A + U
THE CUT?
Here are the ones I think I got, in rough top left to bottom right order:
Marylebone
Harley Street
Telecom Tower
St. Pancras
Finsbury
Clerkenwell
Hackney
Shoreditch
Spitalfields
Bloomsbury
British Museum
Hatton Garden
St. Barts
Barbican
Liverpool Street
Guildhall
Bank of England
Aldgate
Marble Arch
Mayfair
Fortnum & Mason
Soho
St. Giles
Jermyn Street
Covent Garden
Holborn
Aldwych
Fleet Street
St Paul’s
Fenchurch Street
Belgravia
Victoria
The Mall
Buckingham Palace
Houses of Parliament
Waterloo
Lambeth Palace
Blackfriars
Tate Modern
Cannon Street
Tower Hill
London Assembly
Royal Mint
Bermondsey
Hey Alexandra! The graves + seal is the one we still can’t work out. The biscuit/wafer was doing our heads in until my dad pointed out it’s a RITZ cracker. It’s The Ritz! I thiiiink Hyde Park/Serpentine are separated by the lake, though I could be wrong, but individually I think they’re correct! And it’s Somerset House 🙂
LOL, didn’t catch when I last commented that the post had been updated with the answers! Trying not to look while I figure out “tree graveyard seal”!
I’ve just seen this post (2:31am can’t get to sleep) I’m so excited and so surprised to see I got all the answers, a prize (first time I’ve won something) But best of all I had a morning of fun working out the London Rebus. I shall be looking out for our Postie. Thank you so much Gentle Author and Adam Dant
It’s a cloudy, blustery day. After walking the dogs on the beach I sat down to sew.
Chris brought in the post, a late birthday card, we thought. It’s the map of Spitalfields Life.
We won!
It’s trite to say that we don’t win things but this is the first prize since Chris got his life-saving badge in the Cubs.
Thank you – made our morning.
So surprised to receive my prize in the post today. I’ve not lived in London since 1986, but I’m obviously still a Londoner at heart! Thank you very much, I really enjoyed doing this puzzle, even without a prize.
Can someone clarify the UCL one?
I can see that CL == ‘seal’, but what is the U? Looks like a tree in a graveyard to me.
@Paul – it IS a tree in a graveyard. And trees in graveyards are traditionally yews.
@Jennie – thank you! I didn’t know that particular fact. Now I have them all 🙂