"John Rowland" typed


"David Boothroyd" wrote in message
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The Metropolitan Board of Works (1855-1889)
had begun the work of renaming streets to remove
duplicates and stop people getting post intended for
the occupant of the same property on a different street
of the same name. It changed 3,000 names in its time.
The LCC had to be prodded by the Post Office to
continue it, and by 1935 it had changed 2,700 names.
At this point it began to see light at the end of the tunnel
and took a policy decision that there were to be no
duplicated names at all.

Thanks. I've seen a lot of street signs in North London that say something
like "Smith St N" instead of "Smith St N1". Do these signs date from an
interim period where names were unique to each sector but not to the whole
county? If not, what was the point of them?

Incidentally are there only two streets in
London which have fractional numbers in them?
(Balls Pond Road and London Wall)

I think there's one in Barnard Hill, N10. Also, The Vale in Childs Hill has
a number 0.

pedant I'd say that end of The Vale was in Golders Green. House has
'zero' in large letters outside it.

Incidentally, in HA5 there are two Pinner Roads, one at each end of the
area. Are there any other duplicated roads within a single postcode area
(not including cases where a single road has become split)?

Locally to me, but NOT in the same postcode area, are Bacon Lane,
Edgware and Bacon Lane Kingsbury. They are less than two miles apart.
They would have been in Middlesex until quite recently.

Edgware and Edgware Road cause much local confusion too. Was on 142 bus
at Edgware on Friday whe poor Arab lass wanted Judd Street, whic isn't
even close to Marble Arch.

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Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.