Monopoly Monday #6 – Income Tax
It’s Monopoly Monday and we’ve landed on the Income Tax square ! How does Income Tax link to the statues on Parliament Square and the powerful female side of the Garrett family ? In Monopoly the Income Tax square is one where nobody wants to land, but in real life without Income Tax we wouldn’t […]
Monopoly Monday #5 Whitechapel Rd
It’s Monopoly Monday ! and this time it’s the Whitechapel Rd, the only property on the board which is actually in the East End of London, the home of the East London Mosque. Like so much of the east of London it is a vibrant multi-cultural area, blighted to some extent by poverty despite being […]
Parks & Recreation #2: Burgess Park, SE5
Burgess Park is down in south London in the Borough of Southwark SE5 and close to the Old Kent Road (see Monopoly Mondays blog here). Despite being largely unknown outside the area it is Southwark’s largest park, linking Camberwell and Walworth in the west to Peckham and the Old Kent Road in the east. It […]
Monopoly Monday #4: Community Chest
It’s Monopoly Monday ! Our next stop along the board after the Old Kent Rd is the first appearance of Community Chest. Here you draw a card from the pile and have to react to the instructions on the card. There are many occasions when people draw the card “Go to Jail, go directly to […]
Monopoly Monday #3: Old Kent Rd
The Old Kent Road is best known as the first and cheapest property square on the original Monopoly board, with a rent of just £2, rising to a maximum of £250 with a hotel – and, as such, is supposed to represent all that is downmarket about London and especially South London since it’s the […]
Monopoly Monday #2: the Go ! Square
So we are looking at the Go ! square here. Equidistant between Mayfair and Old Kent Rd. I thought therefore it would be interesting to see what was equidistant between Mayfair and Old Kent Rd in real life. However Mayfair is a whole area not just one street and the Old Kent Rd is a […]
