The intention with this website is to locate at least 1,001 benchmark sites, or die in the attempt (no flowers please, house private). Photos of any benchmark sites found will be posted at intervals over the coming days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries ... Anyone who wishes to contribute can send photos and descriptions of any benchmarks they find and would like to have included here, to mfbourke@gmail.com See post Number 1 for a fuller description.

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Monday, May 24, 2010

NUMBER 21

BENCHMARKS continued

'And did James Bracken in ancient days
Walk on Amiens Street's pavements grey?'

(That question is answered in the affirmative in Section 2 of http://brackenjosephine.blogspot.com/)
Benchmarker, in his quest to record 1,001 benchmarks, never sleeps. This one was spotted - on the Gallic sounding Amiens Street - from within the number 748 airport bus as it sped through the city like a rocket sled on rails. Though daubed over with black paint, it still endures.

Above: Amiens Street looking north. The 'mark is on the base of the pillar at left.

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