Category: #CodePegasus

Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot.

Or so the rhyme goes.

Come, look around you. The grandeur. The gold. Soak it all in. Hah! Our                            apologies – that was cruel. But seriously: an irony of sorts, no? What old man Fawkes couldn’t do with fire, the water will dispatch in a second. Think   hard on this final riddle. A thought wrong and it might be your song they’ll be singing next.

    No time for Turner or Blake, my friends. Nevertheless, a fun fact for you all: where you stand is consecrated ground. Be careful – now the Tate Britain, but once a large prison. Millbank, in fact. The last stop for convicts before the ship to down under. Move fast, dear reader! There might be similar ships about if you don’t move out…

The Rescue of Andromeda 1893 Henry C Fehr 1867-1940 Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1894

But wise are those who read with a critical eye and a spring in their step. What is now one way was once two and what is now surrounded once did the surrounding.

Talk to those who are in the know and they’ll let you know. Come closer, though, dear reader. Enough back and forth – there’s history to be told! 

At the top of the curve, look up!