"Kev" wrote in message
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On Sep 8, 11:10 am, "John Rowland"
wrote:
Tom Anderson wrote:
Now, somebody tell me why there's a factory in Croydon with a number
written in binary on the roof:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...82013,-0.12222...

It's not a binary number, it's an arrangement of skylights. The
southern number alternates 1s and 0s, and the northern one nearly
does, which suggests that the similarity to ones and zeroes is
coincidental. If you look at the building further north, it has
similar skylights but in a less interesting pattern.

What surprises me is that there is a factory anywhere in London let
alone Croydon or the whole of SE England come to that.
I thought that London as a 100% service industry sector. I suppose it
could be a warehouse for all those Far East imports.

Well, given how often there are lineside fires in premises with
exploding gas cylinders, one has to assume there's actually still quite
a bit of manufacturing in the London area.