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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Saturday, October 20, 2012

NUMBER 481

BENCHMARKS continued

As Benchmarker was gallivanting in foreign climes for two months of the Summer, M.C. was on an epic odyssey that resulted in a grand haul of 129 'marks. If they gave out a Nobel Prize for benchmark hunting then M.C. would now be on the plane to Stockholm .. er .. or Oslo, maybe.
The first of them was recorded along the banks of the Royal Canal in Dublin's fair city in the shadow of Mountjoy Gaol. It's at the 4th Lock.

Below: Highlighted with M.C.'s signature chalk, a 'mark on the Royal Canal at the 4th Lock.
 
 Above: Looking north at the 4th Lock with the 'mark at centre near the water's edge. It is gratifying to note that M.C.'s camera work seems to show an improvement. Benchmarker was reluctant to take a hard line, but it seems to have worked out well. It's called tough love.

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