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Q London pics.
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RED BUS
In the background of Q's pic of the red bus are two old buildings. These have been altered since the time this pic was taken.
Compare 2012 with moar recent images, such as 2018. The address of the building to the left of frame is 48 Leicester Square. It was gutted and modernized. The lower facade was saved and refurbished. The roof was replaced. During demolition and reno it was covered both at the ground level with hoarding and higher with large sheets draped from above. Scaffold surrounded the facade while the inside work was completed.
Here are interim images that may be meaningful for our purposes.
Demolition began 2-MAR-2014. Prep work was done earlier, especially on ground level, but we can safely deduce that the Q pic was taken before the top of the building was hidden behind its coverings as such does not appear in Q's pic.
For some time the developer decorated the cover with large artwork of blackbirds. Brings to mind, When does a bird sign? Think of the nursery rhymes about blackbirds. Moar on that later.
Something to point out regarding this covering up. Cover up. Sheltering of a commercial building on prime real estate. Gutting something while leaving its facade in place.
Exchange sheltered VERY senior member. What is this place but a sheltered or covered business.
CoveRED BUSness. Red Bus at a stand[still].
A two-man operation on that Red Bus at that stand. Change of driver? Change of Conductor? Regrouping with the engine switched off.
By the way, take a look at the shapes of the buildings and compare with the Q pic. The bus stand, the reflection on the side of the bus, and the demolition point to 2014 – possibly autumn or winter, given the clothing on the people in the Q pic.
Red Bus.
Hunt for Red October.
Look up, waaay up, at the covered business. What name do you find there? At the top.
John [F] vs John [O]
Exchange sheltered VERY senior member.
Shelte[red bus]ness.
Safe harbor. Refuge from a storm. Trade [winds]. Who is [O]? Did the conductor, the director of the orchestration, hop off and another hopped on the RML – the Route Master?
If the Q pic was taken in October, a pic of a red bus, a pic of a shelte[red] [bus]ness, a site that was gutted while leaving behind its old facade, a site in which the digging went very deep beneath the surface to a power source, a man-on-the-street view situated before a mirrored reflection – look here, look there, think mirror, think direction, a pic of at least one "senior-looking" man heading in the direction of the Piccadilly, then …