On Dec 8, 3:46*pm, Roland Perry wrote:
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07:26:10 on Mon, 8 Dec 2008, MIG remarked:

Yes, but it's still the address of the London Borough of Redbridge.

Which is in Essex.

It may have been in a previous "administrative county of Essex", but
that never had any more significance than the current one.

So you claim there's no significance to administrative boundaries
either?

Er, no. There's significance to all these things or they wouldn't
exist.


It also isn't really the reason why "Essex" is/was in the postal
address. *The Post Office/Royal Mail has its own system for
classifying addresses which are based on its operations and not on
past or present administrative boundaries.

So what is the rational basis for claiming that Brentwood is the first
railway station in Essex? If neither administrative nor postal
boundaries make any sense?

I don't think I did say that administrative boundaries don't make any
sense, I just said that previous ones were no more significant than
current ones. The current one has the extra significance of being
current of course.

Maybe it's one of those self-definition things that they have on equal
opportunities questionnaires. People in Ilford feel themselves to be
Essex people and face the same prejudices and barriers in life as
Essex people. Or something like that.