Greenfield

The rebus shows a GREEN rectangle and WC FIELDS without the S [REB12].

WC Fields was the subject of one of the questions in the 1993 Hunt, whose major theme was London Transport. The bearded man is Steve Hames, setter of that Hunt, who we last encountered in Radnage.

There are some references to US poet Emily Dickinson: �I started early, took my dog� is the first line of one of her poems [GREEN1] and A Single Hound is the title of one of her books [GREEN2].

The tube map is part of an artwork by Simon Patterson entitled The Great Bear [GREEN3], in which the names of the stations have been replaced by �stars�; so the Victoria Line is all artists, the Bakerloo Line is all scientists and so on. I�ve always thought it would be more impressive if the interchange stations had been chosen as people who were both scientists and artists, for example. Anyway, in this case the name of THOMAS MORE has been replaced by Emily Dickinson in the place where Russell Square would normally be [GREEN4]. Incidentally, more tube-map-related malarkey can be found on http://owen.massey.net/tubemaps.html, including a handy guide to the subway system of Gallifrey.

The name of Emily Dickinson on the map is a hotspot link to her poem Distance is not the Realm of Fox, which reads in its entirety:

Distance � is not the Realm of Fox

Nor by Relay of Bird

Abated � Distance is
Until thyself, Beloved.

So the penultimate word is THYSELF [GREEN5].

The ad on the bus asks which football ground has a horse buried under the North Stand. This is HIGHBURY [GREEN6], the story being that while the West Stand was being built in 1932, local inhabitants were encouraged to bring along their rubbish to help in the process of raising up the banking on all four sides of the ground.  One coal merchant backed up too close to the hole in the North Bank and saw his horse and cart disappear into the cavity.  The animal was so badly injured that it had to be destroyed and it is buried where it fell, in the middle of the North Bank terracing. Maybe it will be recovered now the ground is being re-developed.

For the bus numbers you need the starting location for each route shown. These can be obtained from that mecca for spotters http://www.londonbusroutes.net/routes.htm. There is a little hotspot link to this on one of the headlamps of the bus. The starting-points are Old Ford, Noak Hill, Clapham Junction, East Ham, Orpington, New Addington, Enfield, Heathrow, Upminster, Northwood, Denmark Hill, Richmond, Epsom, Dagenham East, Turnham Green, Hackney Wick, Old Coulsdon, Finsbury Park, Archway, Deptford, Orpington, New Cross Gate and Golders Green. The initial letters spell �Once one hundredth of a dong�. The dong is the Vietnamese currency, which once had a subdivision called a XU [GREEN7].

One the front of the bus is MiG-25, the Russian fighter plane also known as the "Foxbat". [GREEN8].

Passwords and Directions

(a) THOMASMORE to get to Stonor.
(b) THYSELF to get to Russell�s Water
(c) HIGHBURY to get to Watlington
(d) XU to get to Christmas Common