Comments on: Adam Dant’s London Rebus https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/27/adam-dants-london-rebus/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 05 Jul 2020 19:42:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Paul https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/27/adam-dants-london-rebus/#comment-1344666 Sun, 05 Jul 2020 19:42:27 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182278#comment-1344666 @Jennie – thank you! I didn’t know that particular fact. Now I have them all 🙂

]]> By: Jennie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/27/adam-dants-london-rebus/#comment-1344582 Sat, 04 Jul 2020 22:02:32 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182278#comment-1344582 @Paul – it IS a tree in a graveyard. And trees in graveyards are traditionally yews.

]]> By: Paul https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/27/adam-dants-london-rebus/#comment-1344301 Thu, 02 Jul 2020 17:25:54 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182278#comment-1344301 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.

]]> By: Sue Davis https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/27/adam-dants-london-rebus/#comment-1344228 Thu, 02 Jul 2020 10:43:19 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182278#comment-1344228 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.

]]> By: Peter https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/27/adam-dants-london-rebus/#comment-1344037 Wed, 01 Jul 2020 12:16:20 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182278#comment-1344037 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.

]]> By: Rebekah Bristow https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/27/adam-dants-london-rebus/#comment-1343975 Wed, 01 Jul 2020 01:36:12 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182278#comment-1343975 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

]]> By: Kate https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/27/adam-dants-london-rebus/#comment-1343769 Mon, 29 Jun 2020 09:00:26 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182278#comment-1343769 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”!

]]> By: Kate https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/27/adam-dants-london-rebus/#comment-1343767 Mon, 29 Jun 2020 08:40:38 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182278#comment-1343767 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 🙂

]]> By: Alexandra Dixon https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/27/adam-dants-london-rebus/#comment-1343662 Sun, 28 Jun 2020 21:00:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182278#comment-1343662 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

]]> By: Kate https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/27/adam-dants-london-rebus/#comment-1343554 Sun, 28 Jun 2020 13:02:38 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182278#comment-1343554 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!

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