Great Western Coffee Shop

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-36706591

I wonder if its been the feature of a television program. But then surely the residents would of known.

Lewis maybe or even Morse ?.

Some sort of Endeavour...

The Olympic Torch passed by the end of Benmead Road in 2012 - see this video on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUfLht45-QE). And tell me if you see any famous oriental athletes, because I don't.

Ben Mead was Shakespeare's great uncle once removed.

And Kid Ling Ton was a renowned japanese playwright.

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Also a Thai soup ...  ;D

I wonder if anyone has asked the visitors why they're making for that street ...

Precisely.  Isn't the job of a journalist to investigate things?  Hardly like this would be an expensive or dangerous assignment. 

Yes but that would involve going to site and having to do some work. Why bother to do that when you can trawl a few photos and comments from social media, string a tenuous story together and then get on with playing Angry Birds?

Slightly unfair.  The economics of local newspapers is now such that they can afford very few Journalists so they do not have the time to go and stand out and wait for a bus load of tourists who might come only once every few days or weeks.  Local offices are being closed and Journalists work from home covering large areas visiting regional offices only occasionally. 

OK, I'll take the rap for the generalisation; but it was meant to be slightly tongue-in-cheek. However, in my opinion, there's still way too much sloppy journalism around and too much relienace on social media feeds and the dreaded Wikipedia rather than taking time for serious research which was, I think, the nub of Tim's point. Anyway, wasn't the original news story from the Beeb, rather than a local newspaper? That's even more worrying!

This is the BBC.  They ought to have the resources to investigate properly.  Or if they decide that it isn't worth sending someone out for, the judgement to run a different story. 

I didn't say it wasn't sloppy Journalism, just saying why we are getting sloppy Journalism. This is the sort of story that local papers would have got to the bottom of in the past.

I have to say, if there was a steady stream of people taking pictures outside/near my home I might be tempted to ask them why myself rather than waiting for the media to tell me.  But then I am a journalist by training....

I'm also rather surprised that there hasn't been a steady stream of people turning up outside bobm's house, just to take a picture of his front door.

But I'm not a journalist.  ;) :D ;D

I might also set up a ticket desk and offer light refreshment at an outrageous price. But then I was a Civil Servant by training.

Well according to the report that was just on Sky News, one resident managed to ask one of the few English speaking tourists, and it was nothing more than them wanting to see a typical English village to see what types of houses etc we live in. They were quite fascinated with the wheelie bins too apparently  ;D

The Times reports that one rezzie is knocking out cream teas at a pre-Brexit price of eight quid a pop. I live in a fairly typical house with a wheelie bin. Ni Hao, people! 你好

I live in a two wheelie bin house....

Somewhat bin laden, then...

I've just realise I have 3. 1 for garden, and 1 for rubbish and 1 for recycling.

3 here as well. For rubbish, recycling, and food waste. Many of my neighbours have a fourth for garden waste.

Perhaps it's "Househenge" or some sort of 20th century mystery.  Things in geometric lines - the median point of this estate in Kidlington lines up with one of a similar age in Bath, and another in Exeter. And also with one in Sheffield and one in Leeds.   On Kid Ling Ton's birthday, if standing on the manhole in the middle of the road, the sun rises directly about the roof ridge line of no. 42, and late on 24th December 2006 Santa Claus was spotted walking up Benmead from the Black Horse with his arms full of presents and a worried look on his face.

The old Stonehenge did indeed boast a ticket office and light refreshments ... and somewhat limited other facilities!

The origins may indeed be shrouded in mystery already - the origins of Stonehenge have only just been revealed, following the discovery of a pictographic record of a conversation between a chief delivery man and a clerk of works at the site of the construction of a prehistoric public convenience near Salisbury.

Delivery man: "Where do you want these stones?"
Clerk of Works: "Not again! We need pipes - we've got enough stones. What's wrong with our ordering office?"
DM: "Well, we're not taking 'em back. We've carried them all the way from Wales, and they weigh a ton. Actually, several tons. They're paid for, so it's your problem, pal! Where do you want them?"
CoW: "OK, put them over there for now while I sort something out. Don't just dump them, though - make them look pretty."

Or the Flanders and Swann account in Built Up Area:

"I don't know where you get that stone from anyway - that's not local stone; I can tell. You get it from where? The Preseli Mountains? In Wales? I know it's in Wales - I've been abroad. Why d'yer want to bring it all that way... You're bringing it the wrong way anyway: you want to bring it round the Chanctonbury Ring road, avoiding the earthworks at Avebury."

This even got a brief feature on BBC Breakfast this morning but no real reason given.