About 12 months ago – the exact day is a little hazy – Greenwich.co.uk was born. The aim of the site has always been to deliver fresh, engaging content to the Greenwich community on a regular basis and hopefully we’ve managed that at least some of the time over the last year.

To mark our first birthday, I thought it was a good excuse to give away another one of the fantastic Greenwich Monopoly sets that we created at the start of 2009. Square by square, we decided, with the help of readers, on Greenwich equivalents to the traditional London Monopoly board and ended up with a gorgeous Greenwich Monopoly set that comes nicely packaged in a presentation tin.

The first set was won back in April and now it’s your chance to win it too. It will be only the second time this Greenwich Monopoly set has been created and it does actually get manufactured in the official Monopoly factory.

To Win:

Email monopoly@greenwich.co.uk and answer the following question:

In what year was the Cutty Sark built?

Please include your name and address on the email. One entry per email. A winner will be drawn from correct entries on Wednesday 19th August.

Update: The competition was won by Martin Descalzi.

The Monopoly competition started at the tail end of 2008, and since that time, visitors to this website have helped us name all the equivalent squares on the Greenwich Monopoly board. It’s been a great effort, and I’d like to thank everyone that has taken part.

After drawing a name from the hat, I can announce that the winner of the Greenwich Monopoly set is Mr Dave Levitt from Pelton Road. Congratulations Dave, will be on its way to you soon and I hope you have a lot of enjoyment from it.

Thanks again to everyone that took part. To those that didn’t win, don’t despair: the Greenwich Monopoly set we have made together is such a fantastic prize, I will be getting another one made soon and giving someone else another chance to win one.

If you can’t wait til then and want to make your own,  click here to find out how.

Later on today, I’ll be announcing the winner of the Greenwich Monopoly competition. The board itself is beautiful and presented in a lovely tin. I’ve taken a few photos of it to show how nice it is…

Update: The winner has been announced here.

The board was created using the My Monopoly service, available through Firebox, which lets you create your own customised Monopoly board.

Thanks to all those that took part in the Greenwich Monopoly Competition. The confirmed list of squares on the Greenwich Monopoly board we are making is as follows:

Mayfair: Gloucester Circus
Park Lane: Crooms Hill
Oxford Street: Trafalgar Road
Bond Street: Greenwich Market
Regent Street: Nelson Road
Whitechapel: Salutation Road
Old Kent Road: Tunnel Avenue
Fenchurch Street: Greenwich Park
Liverpool Street: Cutty Sark
Marylebone: National Maritime Musuem
King’s Cross: Royal Observatory
Strand: Royal Hill
Fleet Street: Hyde Vale
Trafalgar Square: Diamond Terrace
Leicester Square: Greenwich High Road
Coventry Street: King William Walk
Piccadilly: Greenwich Church Street
Bow Street: Burney Street
Marlborough Stree: King George Street
Vine Street: Stockwell Street
Pentonville Road: Pelton Road
Euston Road: Old Woolwich Road
Angel: Ballast Quay
Pall Mall: Romney Road
Whitehall: Peyton Place
Northumberland Avenue: Roan Street

We’ve now sent those details off to the official Monopoly factory in the UK and they are busy building this bespoke Monopoly set.

The draw to find out who will win this extra special prize will take place on Wednesday 15th April!

There’s another three entries in our Monopoly competition up for grabs here. This time we are deciding the purple squares from the original London Monopoly. Those squares are Pall Mall, Whitehall and Northumberland Avenue.

To enter, simply state the name of the Greenwich street you’d like to nominate.

You can nominate one, two or all three squares. Keep an eye on the Competition summary page which tells you all the Greenwich Streets that have been used up already.

If your nominations are selected, you will receive an entry for each one into the Greenwich Monopoly Prize Draw. Your entry doesn’t need to be unique – if someone posts the same suggestions you were going to make, you both still receive a prize draw entry if that one is selected.

Deadline for this one is Monday lunchtime. If you’re unclear of how to play, please just ask.

With the yellow squares decided, we move on now to the orange squares, which are Bow Street, Marlborough Street and Vine Street on the original London Monopoly set.

To enter, simply state the name of the square and the Greenwich equivalent that you’d like to nominate. e.g.:
Vine Street = Creek Road (for example!).

You can nominate one, two or all three squares. Keep an eye on the Competition summary page which tells you all the Greenwich Streets that have been used up already.

If you nominations are selected, you will receive an entry for each one into the Greenwich Monopoly Prize Draw. Your entry doesn’t need to be unique – if someone posts the same suggestions you were going to make, you both still receive a prize draw entry if that one is selected.

Deadline for this one is Tuesday lunchtime. If you’re unclear of how to play, please just ask.

There’s another three entries in our Monopoly competition up for grabs here. This time we are deciding the yellow squares from the original London Monopoly. Those squares are Leicester Square, Coventry Street and Piccadilly.

To enter, simply state the name of the square and the Greenwich equivalent that you’d like to nominate. e.g.:
Coventry Street = Creek Road (for example!).

You can nominate one, two or all three squares. Keep an eye on the Competition summary page which tells you all the Greenwich Streets that have been used up already.

If you nominations are selected, you will receive an entry for each one into the Greenwich Monopoly Prize Draw. Your entry doesn’t need to be unique – if someone posts the same suggestions you were going to make, you both still receive a prize draw entry if that one is selected.

Deadline for this one is Friday 12am. If you’re unclear of how to play, please just ask.

Here’s the next chance to enter the Greenwich Monopoly competition, and there’s three entries into the prize draw up for grabs.

We’re deciding the red squares from the original Monopoly board, and they were Strand, Fleet Street and Trafalgar Square.

To enter, simply state the name of the square and the Greenwich equivalent that you’d like to nominate. e.g.:
Fleet Street = Creek Road (for example!).

You can nominate one, two or all three squares. Keep an eye on the Competition summary page which tells you all the Greenwich Streets that have been used up already.

If you nominations are selected, you will receive an entry for each one into the Greenwich Monopoly Prize Draw. Deadline for this one is Sunday 7pm. If you’re unclear of how to play, please just ask.

In the original game of Monopoly, there are four train stations – Fenchurch Street, Liverpool Street, Marylebone and King’s Cross. When we were deciding on a previous square, contributor Tony Usher had the good idea to put Greenwich attractions rather than stations on the Greenwich version of Monopoly we are making for this competition prize.

So, going with Tony’s suggestion, we are now looking for your four Greenwich attractions that could go on the board to replace the four train stations.

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How to enter: Just list four Greenwich attractions in the comments below. We will select the winner or winners and they will each receive four entries into the prize draw. I really think this is going to be an easy one so get entering as this one probably represents your best chance of winning that unique, Greenwich Monopoly set.

Any questions? Just ask…

So far we’ve decided all the green squares and all the blue squares of our Greenwich Monopoly board. I thought we’d go to the opposite end of the spectrum now and tackle the brown squares. I want to get through these a bit quicker so we’re going to double up on this one and play for TWO entries! (Calm youselves at the back!)

Whitechapel and Old Kent Road are the cheapest streets in the game. Hmm… I wonder how we can do this without sounding snobbish and passing judgement! Let’s just have your entries please for two Greenwich streets to take the place of Whitechapel and Old Kent Road on our bespoke Monopoly board. I’ll pick a winner and there will be two entries up for grabs for whichever entry or entries are in luck.

I hope this all clear by the way… running competitions is a skill in itself which I’m still learning the ropes for, so if anything’s not clear, just ask!