It's Quiz Time - Number 2

But First, An Investigation

Two of yesterday's "road sign" puzzle involved roundabouts. When the "Find The Fault" games were produced, these traffic management devices were very new.

In an outbreak of seasonal seredipitousness, this picture popped up in Pinterest on fbb's laptop.

Ir is of the very first roundabout installed in Southampton in 1938. So fbb decided to take a virtual look round about the roundabout to see if anything was recogniseable today. The location was "Six Dials", just off the city centre.

The project did not look at all hopeful based on the "today" picture which accompanied the 1938 version.

And that's because eveything has changed so much that the "new" is not where the "old" once was.

Open Street Map provides a plan of how things are today with a very different Six Dials junction shown top right on the above map extract. Southamptonians will be familiar with the parks, but fbb wants to take you closer to the upper right of the above map.

The new junction is off the top of the enlargement, the main A33 is to the left with the railway to Southampton station crossing from right to left; and off to the left you would find the platforms after a short tunnel. 

From Northam Road (once the main drag!) a white road runs southwards. That is St Marys Street,

The 1938 picture is looking across Northam Road and southwards down St Marys Street.

An the same view can be created today, approximately.

The 1938 building on the left has gone, but the former pub on the right can be identified behind the railings on the today shot. The small door between the ground floor windows is a big clue.

The low building to the left and behind the white car is the same.

Between the two is the railway line.

And there is no roundabout and the participating roads concerned have been either replaced or obliterated.

Once again, the site of the former roundabout is shown in enlarged form.

And Today's Picture Puzzles ...

... are of a very general nature as befits the Crissmuss recovery season! The challenge is to "find the fault'.

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 bonus 

And a really silly one which took fbb absolutely ages to figure out! But then he is old and a bit slow-witted.

Answers soon ; tomorrow's selection will be transport related.

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"NOT the Advent Calendar", but ...

     The      

  CHRIST -mas 

  Criss-muss  

   Confusion  

 Critique  27 

Always Missing From the Christmas Story

But it should be there!

It should be there for two reasons. Firstly the narrative sits between the Nativity and the visit of the "Wise Men", a k a Magi, a k a Zoroastrian Astronomers, a k a Zoroastrian Astrologers but very much NOT k a Kings.

Luke's Gospel records the bit everyone (except your blogging author, if course) hardly knows or remembers, which happened about a week after the birth.

But surely it must be part of Christmas. Here is the opening of Luke's account:-

Jesus Is Presented in the Temple

The time came for Joseph and Mary to perform the ceremony of purification, as the Law of Moses commanded. So they took the child to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, as it is written in the law of the Lord: “Every first-born male is to be dedicated to the Lord.” They also went to offer a sacrifice of a pair of doves or two young pigeons, as required by the law of the Lord.

We know from earlier in the Gospels that Joseph was "a devout man" and had to be very brave to stick with his pregnant but as yet unmarried Mary.

In the male dominated world of Bible times (don't knock it, that's the way it was and everybody accepted it!) every firstborn male child was "purified", i.e. offered to God for his protection. A sacrifice was also offered to say thank you for the safe delivery of the baby.

Very much like a Christening service today.

But weird things happened: not miraculous in activity but miraculous in their significance, almost weird.

Mary and Joseph were accosted by two people who were just hanging around in the Temple forecourt!

That would be through that door leading from the public colonnaded area into the temple itself!

She was incredibly old for the day - 84!

To be continued.

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 Next Transport picture blog : Sat 28th Dec