London Urban Adventurers

Please note, this one is a Tuesday as Sue needs help with her Art Exhibition.

St Mary’s Hospital was founded in 1845 on Praed Street as a voluntary hospital for ’the deserving sick poor’ and opened the Medical School in 1854. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin there.

This is another of our many outside Picture Hunts this year. If any issues with weather, we’ll switch to our 50-50 Trivia in the nearby Wetherspoon Sir Alexander Fleming, so turn up as something will be on regardless.

If you’re new to Picture Hunts, check previous events for winners and clue sheets.

This time, the event will be centred around different shops on one side of Praed St, Paddington, so there’s no crossing of busy roads.

Please aim to turn up for 1:00-1:30 when teams are being arranged. The Hunt starts at 1:30. You're losing search time if you're late! Bring a pen please.

As usual, portions of the road are split up into four areas where teams search for the locations of photographed items in the street, buildings or shop windows, and then record where they found them.

Picture Hunts are a great new way to get up to speed with slices of London history while sleuthing around the area.

Everyone is presented with twenty partial photos of objects around an area. Your team mission is to find them. Some well known, some well unknown!

This makes Picture Hunts more interesting and challenging, bringing out the best of your teams detecting skills.
You will also have a map of the area. It will be sub-divided into four sections, P, Q, R, S. Each photo will come from one of these.

Four players max per team, but the lower number teams get a point per player start from the biggest team.
For example, four teams of one, two, three and four. Four player team, no advantage, (the biggest and theoretically the more knowledge between them, except it doesn't always work like that). Three player team, one point start. Two player team, two point start. One player team, three point start.

Scores are always close and around the 15-20 points mark. How many players do you want in your team? There's a dilemma!
The clipboard holder enters one of the letters to note its area location. Dead simple, right? 90 minutes to do the hunt.

We have the usual prizes of chocolate, including some great new varieties.
There is also an equal prize for the funniest team name judged by Sue, my glamorous assistant. Names win prizes too! So there’s everything to play for.

We mark up at the quiz finish point. The Wetherspoon Sir Alexander Fleming.

Hunts are good fun and the proven experience so far is that members get to know each other better after working in teams as you all have to communicate. Great icebreakers.

This is what Meetup is all about. Come and join us.

There is a £7 cash/card charge for this event.

Contact number on the day is 07422334411 if your transport is delayed.

If you can’t make it, please cancel using the “Edit RSVP Button”.
Your consideration is greatly appreciated.

Join my group direct from here: https://www.meetup.com/ian-s-history-walks/?eventOrigin=your_groups

This event is for all those who missed the walk in November.
Find out about the main characters in this story. Why it should not have happened.

I will tell you about the devastation in the city and see the rebuilding of many of the churches and visit some of them. We will walk along the direction of the fire to reveal its many interesting stories and human tragedies.
I am a qualified tour guide.
The walk will last 2 hours with opportunities to use toilets.

The tour fee is £10. Cash or card

Please be early as we like to set off on time and can only wait 10 minutes. Don’t forget to cancel via the “Edit RSVP” button if you can’t make a walk. Your consideration is much appreciated.

The walk goes ahead in the event of rain.

Located on the Devil's Highway, an old Roman road from London to Silchester, "Sheppard's Bush Green" was first recorded as a place name in 1635.

How are your detecting skills? Welcome to another of our many outside Picture Hunts this year. This time, the event will be centred around shop fronts, buildings and features on Shepherds Bush Green. There’s no crossing of busy roads.

If any issues with weather, we’ll switch to our 50-50 Trivia in the nearby Wetherspoon Central Bar, so turn up as something will be on regardless.

If you’re new to Picture Hunts, check previous events for winners and clue sheets.

Pkease aim to turn up for 1:00-1:30 when teams are being arranged.

As usual, portions of the road are split up into four areas where teams search for the locations of photographed items in the street, buildings or shop windows, and then record where they found them.

Picture Hunts are a great new way to get up to speed with slices of London history while sleuthing around the area.

Everyone is presented with twenty partial photos of objects around an area. Your team mission is to find them. Some well known, some well unknown!

This makes Picture Hunts more interesting and challenging, bringing out the best of your teams detecting skills.
You will also have a map of the area. It will be sub-divided into four sections, P, Q, R, S. Each photo will come from one of these.

Four players max per team, but the lower number teams get a point per player start from the biggest team.
For example, four teams of one, two, three and four. Four player team, no advantage, (the biggest and theoretically the more knowledge between them, except it doesn't always work like that). Three player team, one point start. Two player team, two point start. One player team, three point start.

Scores are always close and around the 15-20 points mark. How many players do you want in your team? There's a dilemma!
The clipboard holder enters one of the letters to note its area location. Dead simple, right? 90 minutes to do the hunt.

We have the usual prizes of chocolate, including some great new varieties.
There is also an equal prize for the funniest team name judged by Sue, my glamorous assistant. Names win prizes too! So there’s everything to play for.

We mark up at the quiz finish point. The Wetherspoon Central Bar.

Hunts are good fun and the proven experience so far is that members get to know each other better after working in teams as you all have to communicate. Great icebreakers.

This is what Meetup is all about. Come and join us.

There is a £7 cash/card charge for this event.

Contact number on the day is 07422334411 if your transport is delayed.

If you can’t make it, please cancel using the “Edit RSVP Button”.
Your consideration is greatly appreciated.