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I plotted the places from the Helsinki monopoly board onto a map.
You can scroll and zoom the map here:
www.umapper.com/maps/view/id/41259/
I'm assuming Rantatie is Sörnäisten Rantatie, and Sörnäisten Asema is the metro station, and Tavara-asema is the railway terminus at the Eastern Harbour.
There are some strange things on the board.
The first two and cheapest streets, Korkeavuorenkatu and Kasarmikatu are in a nice and quite expensive part of town, and don't really match up to Whitechapel Road and Old Kent Road on the London board.
Two streets, Mannerheimintie and Hämeentie, are much longer than the others.
And two properties aren't streets, but whole areas. One is a former island, Siltasaari (cf. Whitehall).
The other is the entire neighbourhood of Eira (cf. Oxford Street). Eira is considered the most expensive neighbourhood in Helsinki but is only fourth most expensive on the board.
The most expensive property is a very small square called Erottaja (cf. Mayfair). Perhaps Erottaja gets top billing because it's the official geographic "zero point" of Helsinki, but it's strange all of Eira comes cheaper.
London version here: www.motorwaymap.co.uk/mono.htm
Nice, but faded, signage - with a lovely texture as a result of being painted onto the back of the glass (or so it looks)...
Check out the ceiling of the ladies smoking room. This room was partitioned up into eight or more little 'cubby holes' for British Rail staff...
At the Aspects of Newspaper Design thing, they had lots of newspapers in glass cases like they were museum pieces. I was weirded out by the way that they had thumb tacks keeping them on the boards. Like why would you do that to things in museums. It's got to be like gluing the rosetta stone to the wall or something.
The newspaper on the left was from a day in 1988. The newspaper on the right was from the following day. The enormous design changes had quite an impact on the UK's newspaper scene.
The ceiling at the top of the imperial staircase - here you can see three of the 'virtues' more easily...
Oh the wonders you see during Map Club jaunts. Check this out - it's like buying a set of shelves or a washing machine and finding that someone spent ages putting a huge decorative metal bird on the thing.
So we went to Aspects of Newspaper Design. Here's a picture of Phil and Webb standing in front of an old and important printing press.
Mr Webb hasn't gone outside much recently. However he looks washed out in this photo because I am bad at taking photos
The hotel was used by British Rail for years and didn't look after the place. The whole place is in serious disrepair despite being Grade 1 listed...
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