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Blimey!
I had no idea......

This building
http://goo.gl/maps/xfCB9
Just off the South Circ, is a lock keeper's cottage. Adjacent to one of 28 locks, in two flights between Surrey Commercial Docks (as it was known) and Croydon.
Other lock keeper's cottages are available.
I can't help but imagine that the massive, sign written retaining wall in Shardeloes Road is canal related.
I should, in fairness, point out that it was Ludd who made me aware of the chunk of canal which remains in Dacres Wood Nature Reserve when, on one occasion, we were returning with Ludd the Youngest, from Mother's, having scored a steampunk typewriter.
Ludd - I'm unaware of there being any remains of the pneumatic railway - I'd be interested to know of any.

It's a frieze alongside what was the towpath of the Croydon canal, which ran from its connection to the Surrey Canal, not so far from your Convoys Wharf tag. It ran south through Brockley (Brockley Barge is a pub so-named because of the canal connection) through Forest Hill - which is where the above image was taken - opposite the train station, below The Hob, you can still see a short stretch of cobbles where the pavement ramps up - almost certainly part of the towpath. A couple of water-filled sections remain to this day, one in Dacres Wood Nature Reserve in Dacres Road, Forest Hill. The other is a stretch of ornamental water in Betts Park in Anerley. Doubtless the Jolly Sailor and The Ship pub in South Norwood is so named because of its close proximity to where the canal ran. Until the late 70's it was possible to spot sections of the towpath from a train as it pulled in to West Croydon station, where the canal terminated. Much of the land reclaimed after the canal was drained was used for the construction of the railway which runs along there today.
A contemporary map showing the route of the canal can be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/odekm8h

Looks like I'm beaten to it.
Twice.
I'd just written almost word for word 7ven's post above.
Ah well...

AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Arsebiscuits!

Serves me right for waiting for the blue skies which never came :)

Fascinating stuff.
Thanks

The wall is the basis for many a barbecue by garden-less local rezzies during balmier months...
Lovely bike BTW, 7ven.
Not sure about your Lenox clue - although Murdoch's News International used to import/stash their paper here not so long ago....

So who is going to start a list? :)

In.

DAS'd a couple of minutes ago while I was adding to my re-cycling bin.
Ludd was identified as the culprit.
How am I supposed to DAS whilst on foot with an empty dispenser of Cillit Bang!?

Barking at cars, at volume, is what Brockley Cross needs. Srsly

That bike is nice, as well as being the same colour as the tip of a Swan Vesta

If you're going climbing tomorrow, then it'd be a surprised if its still there when I go to work on Monday.

I might give that a go on my way into work on Monday - assuming it's still there!
Nice detail.

It's been said before, you give good clue, Oat.
I know where this one is, but am too pox ridden to walk, let alone leave the house and get on the bike.....

Aaak! Szazbat!
No wonder I couldn't find it - I was convinced it was looking north with back to the river.

What? (Wait!)
There's a map?
I'm sure I can put myself within 5 minutes walk of the new one.....

Only just spotted this as I've been by the seaside for the last few days.
I note there have been no cuts in the quality of the tags.
I may try to end this year with a NYE tag

No.1 Doyce Street SE1

Wow!
I'm looking into you being grapefruit fj......

I'm pretty sure it would've been Reckless that my imported CD came from....

A lot of KLF stuff was recorded in makeshift studios in the Clapham / Stockwell / Union road /Acre Lane area.
I spoke with my Grate Frend Greg a few moments ago - who worked with Leslie Cauty (partner to Jimmy) at Apex Models in Clapham.
The train set used in the video of Last Train to Transcentral was built and filmed in a squat KLF occupied in Clapham.
When times were tough for the KLF, Greg made a significant contribution to the purchase of the LAPD car which appears at length in 3am Eternal.
More idle info.....

I was introduced to Space on vinyl, by my ex's son who was about 14 at the time and somewhat in awe/afraid of me. 'Do you want to hear this?' he asked 'It's not like proper music, it's more like,... errrr...., noises - but it's dead good'
My copy is a rare Japanese import CD which cost the earth from one of the record shops in Berwick Street.
If I can figure out a way of transferring the ones and zeros onto a blank disc, I'll drop it through your door, Ludd.

Blimey!
I've passed that place a thousand times (used to work around the corner) and never known.
As a matter of (little) interest , my bezzie mate Jane, is second cousin to Drummond, and I am currently listening to Space :)
Not sure when I'll make the time this weekend to tag it tho'but

Gare du Norde...