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Will Travelcard Zone 6 ever expand to include Dartford stattion?
K writes
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:56:02 +0100, Dave wrote: K writes Please be careful with your attributions - none of the words you quoted were mine. Well, it looked like they were from you - there were no indictaiopns that you had quoted them. No indications?!?!? Can you read? Sorry for misquoting you but in your message you said -----------quoted bit cut & pasted-------------------- The same obsession which runs parallel to claiming to be the "capital city" and naming the county hall "City Hall" when GL isn't a city. It has also spread to road signs where various places have been omitted/deleted and replaced by compass-point London where the road doesn't even lead to London or to a sensible approach route for the signed part of London. ----------end of quoted bit As you see, there are no marks preceding the lines to show it was a quote. There were no quote marks in the conventional Usenet sense, as it was quoting from an article quite some way back. But it was clearly referenced and marked. (In a similar fashion to how you did it above.) Looking back at the thread I see that it _was_ a quote, so I once again apologize for misquoting you. Accepted. -- Dave |
Will Travelcard Zone 6 ever expand to include Dartford stattion?
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 01:35:51 +0000 (UTC) Charles Ellson wrote:
} On Monday, in article } "K" } wrote: } } On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 23:56:33 +0000 (UTC), } (Charles Ellson) wrote: } } } The same obsession which runs parallel to claiming to be the "capital } city" } } What's wrong with that? } } It isn't a city, far less the capital city, a position still occupied by } the city which has done the job for over 800 years. } } Which is? } } The City of London. The City of Wesminster is the seat of parliament, monarch and courts since Henry IV. In every meanigful sense it's the capital of England. The City of London is just more famous. Matthew -- Il est important d'être un homme ou une femme en colère; le jour où nous quitte la colère, ou le désir, c'est cuit. - Barbara http://www.calmeilles.co.uk/ |
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Charles Ellson wrote:
On Tuesday, in article "Matthew Malthouse" wrote: snip The City of Wesminster is the seat of parliament, monarch and courts since Henry IV. In every meanigful sense it's the capital of England. The City of London is just more famous. Hosting a parliament does not make somewhere a capital city, as will be found in a number of countries (including the UK). Westminster is only one place which has a royal palace. Nil points. m-w.com, capital [sense 2] 3 b: being the seat of government Nil points for you, I'm afraid. |
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"James Farrar" wrote in message
... Charles Ellson wrote: On Tuesday, in article "Matthew Malthouse" wrote: snip The City of Wesminster is the seat of parliament, monarch and courts since Henry IV. In every meanigful sense it's the capital of England. The City of London is just more famous. Hosting a parliament does not make somewhere a capital city, as will be found in a number of countries (including the UK). Westminster is only one place which has a royal palace. Nil points. m-w.com, capital [sense 2] 3 b: being the seat of government Nil points for you, I'm afraid. Precisely. If being the centre for government, law and finance does not make a city its country's capital, what does? Charles, are you saying that London is England's financial capital and Westminster its governemnt and legal capital? I think when people in common parlance talk about London being the capital of England (and maybe of GB and the UK), they mean the whole of London (how ever you define "the whole"!), rather than simply the City of London (just the financial centre and not the government and legal centre). I tend to think of the City of Westminster and the City of London as being merely districts of a nebulous place called "London" which for historical reasons has been divided into two very small adjacent cities which don't include most of central "London". As a matter of interest, do postcode boundaries follow the boundary between the Cities of Westminster and London? However a capital city doesn't have to be the country's largest city - think of Scotland (Edinburgh is smaller than Glasgow), Australia (Canberra is titchy compared with Sydney, Melbourne etc) or the old West Germany (Bonn was titchy compared with Hamburg, Munich etc). |
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Martin Underwood writes
As a matter of interest, do postcode boundaries follow the boundary between the Cities of Westminster and London? The boundary between the cities of Westminster and London [1] is very short, probably only 500m or so in length - but even there the boundaries are not precisely the same. See http://tinyurl.com/im8l [1] In their modern administrative boundaries. -- Dave |
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"Dave" wrote in message
... Martin Underwood writes As a matter of interest, do postcode boundaries follow the boundary between the Cities of Westminster and London? The boundary between the cities of Westminster and London [1] is very short, probably only 500m or so in length - but even there the boundaries are not precisely the same. See http://tinyurl.com/im8l [1] In their modern administrative boundaries. There's a red boundary line that runs from near Chancery Lane tube station roughly southwards to the middle of the Thames near HQS Wellington. Is that the city boundary or the postcode boundary? On the 1:50000 map it's a long dash and short dot line which means "county, unitary authority, metropolitan district or London borough" so I presume it's the city rather than postcode boundary. I can't find my large A-Z which shows postcode boundaries as well as London borough boundaries. I've never understood the rules governing postcode boundaries. They often cross county boundaries. Mind you, county / unitary authority boundaries seem to be perverse as well: in what used to be called Berkshire (and which most people, unitary authority notwithstanding, still *do* call Berkshire!) there's a boundary that runs through the middle of Reading such that Tilehurst (really a suburb of Reading) is part of the UA of West Berkshire (administered in Newbury) whereas the most of the rest of the conurbation of Reading is part of the UA of Reading. You'd think that common sense would route the boundary in the un-built-up area outside Reading - and would keep moving that boundary as Reading expands so that the whole of the conurbation (as it exists at any time) is always administered from the same place. |
Will Travelcard Zone 6 ever expand to include Dartford stattion?
Martin Underwood writes
The boundary between the cities of Westminster and London [1] is very short, probably only 500m or so in length - but even there the boundaries are not precisely the same. See http://tinyurl.com/im8l [1] In their modern administrative boundaries. There's a red boundary line that runs from near Chancery Lane tube station roughly southwards to the middle of the Thames near HQS Wellington. Is that the city boundary or the postcode boundary? I assumed it was the postcode boundary, on the map the postal districts are written in a font of the same colour & weight. The thick greyish line would appear to be the borough boundary line. I've never understood the rules governing postcode boundaries. Simple. They are drawn purely for the convenience of the Royal Mail, to enable them to deliver mail effectively. -- Dave |
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Martin Underwood wrote:
Mind you, county / unitary authority boundaries seem to be perverse as well: in what used to be called Berkshire (and which most people, unitary authority notwithstanding, still *do* call Berkshire!) there's a boundary that runs through the middle of Reading such that Tilehurst (really a suburb of Reading) is part of the UA of West Berkshire (administered in Newbury) whereas the most of the rest of the conurbation of Reading is part of the UA of Reading. You'd think that common sense would route the boundary in the un-built-up area outside Reading - and would keep moving that boundary as Reading expands so that the whole of the conurbation (as it exists at any time) is always administered from the same place. Unfortunately, common sense got defeated by politics. Labour in Reading were worried that widening their boundaries might cause them to lose control of the council, and the majority parties outside Reading were worried that one or more of their boroughs might disappear if Reading was enlarged. The result is that the 19th century boundaries are still in place! Berkshire still exists by the way. It has a Fire and Rescue Service for example. -- Richard J. (to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address) |
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"Richard J." wrote in message
... Martin Underwood wrote: Mind you, county / unitary authority boundaries seem to be perverse as well: in what used to be called Berkshire (and which most people, unitary authority notwithstanding, still *do* call Berkshire!) there's a boundary that runs through the middle of Reading such that Tilehurst (really a suburb of Reading) is part of the UA of West Berkshire (administered in Newbury) whereas the most of the rest of the conurbation of Reading is part of the UA of Reading. You'd think that common sense would route the boundary in the un-built-up area outside Reading - and would keep moving that boundary as Reading expands so that the whole of the conurbation (as it exists at any time) is always administered from the same place. Unfortunately, common sense got defeated by politics. Labour in Reading were worried that widening their boundaries might cause them to lose control of the council, and the majority parties outside Reading were worried that one or more of their boroughs might disappear if Reading was enlarged. The result is that the 19th century boundaries are still in place! Berkshire still exists by the way. It has a Fire and Rescue Service for example. I know Berkshire still exists: even the road signs on the A34 going south from Oxford to Newbury say something like "Welcome to the Royal County of Berkshire / West Berkshire". In common parlance, "Berkshire" is the name that refers to the area of land bounded by Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey etc - which is currently sub-divided into artificial Unitary Authorities called West Berkshire, Reading, Bracknell Forest, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wokingham. Ask a resident which county they live in and they'll say "Berkshire" not "Windsor and Maidenhead" or "Bracknell Forest". According to Simon Gardner who regularly posts in uk.local.thames-valley, the strictly correct, hair-splitting answer to the question would be "I don't" - because Bracknell Forest etc aren't even counties - they are Unitary Authorities. As a former resident of Berkshire, I can assure you that I didn't vote for the change of status - for the simple reason that I (like all the other residents) wasn't consulted about it. Isn't democracy wonderful? The change led to all sorts of absurd situations. For example, if you borrowed a library book at Bracknell library, you weren't able to return it to Wokingham or Reading library as you had been able to do in the past. If I'd had to call an ambulance, I'd have been taken to Wexham Park Hospital on the far side of Slough rather than to the much closer and more accessible Royal Berks Hospital. |
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Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
In article m, Martin Underwood writes Ask a resident which county they live in and they'll say "Berkshire" not "Windsor and Maidenhead" or "Bracknell Forest". According to Simon Gardner who regularly posts in uk.local.thames-valley, the strictly correct, hair-splitting answer to the question would be "I don't" - because Bracknell Forest etc aren't even counties - they are Unitary Authorities. I haven't checked the case of Bracknell Forest, but the correct titles of two other unitary authorities are the County of Peterborough and the County of Southend-on-Sea. I don't think that's strictly true. There is a County of Southend-on-Sea (and also a County of Thurrock), and those areas are no longer part of the (administrative) county of Essex. But these new counties do not have councils. The relevant unitary authority for Southend is still Southend-on-Sea Borough Council. Indeed there is no mention of the "County of Southend-on-Sea" on www.southend.gov.uk . -- Richard J. (to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address) |
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In article , Clive D. W. Feather
writes In article m, Martin Underwood writes Ask a resident which county they live in and they'll say "Berkshire" not "Windsor and Maidenhead" or "Bracknell Forest". According to Simon Gardner who regularly posts in uk.local.thames-valley, the strictly correct, hair-splitting answer to the question would be "I don't" - because Bracknell Forest etc aren't even counties - they are Unitary Authorities. I haven't checked the case of Bracknell Forest, but the correct titles of two other unitary authorities are the County of Peterborough and the County of Southend-on-Sea. Didn't know about Southend! It would have been nice if Peterborough had gone back to the old designation of "The Soke of Peterborough"! The there's the "City and County of the City of Bristol"....... -- Ian Jelf, MITG, Birmingham, UK Registered "Blue Badge" Tourist Guide for London & the Heart of England http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk |
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Richard J. wrote:
Clive D. W. Feather wrote: In article m, Martin Underwood writes Ask a resident which county they live in and they'll say "Berkshire" not "Windsor and Maidenhead" or "Bracknell Forest". According to Simon Gardner who regularly posts in uk.local.thames-valley, the strictly correct, hair-splitting answer to the question would be "I don't" - because Bracknell Forest etc aren't even counties - they are Unitary Authorities. I haven't checked the case of Bracknell Forest, but the correct titles of two other unitary authorities are the County of Peterborough and the County of Southend-on-Sea. I don't think that's strictly true. There is a County of Southend-on-Sea (and also a County of Thurrock), and those areas are no longer part of the (administrative) county of Essex. But these new counties do not have councils. The relevant unitary authority for Southend is still Southend-on-Sea Borough Council. Indeed there is no mention of the "County of Southend-on-Sea" on www.southend.gov.uk . And the situation is similar for Peterborough. The functions of Cambridgeshire County Council in respect of Peterborough were transferred to the *city* council, i.e. the unitary authority. I don't know why it was necessary to create these new formal counties. Presumably the original legislation creating the unitary authorities was botched. Why didn't they just re-create County Boroughs? -- Richard J. (to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address) |
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Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
The correct answer to "which county do my parents live in" is "The County of Southend-on-Sea". Depending on what you mean by "county". |
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Colin Rosenstiel writes The 1990s unitaries were made to fit in with post-1972 local government legislation which didn't include County Boroughs. They are essentially the same though modern unitaries are not the same as the old County Boroughs in a number of respects. Peterborough shares a number of services with Cambridgeshire including the Fire and Rescue service, Police, Waste Disposal arrangements, structure plan and a Lord Lieutenant. The old county borough sometimes shared functions with the counties around them, too. Smethwick, a county borough since 1907, shared a police force with Staffordshire pre 1966. Solihull and Warwickshire shared a children's home during Solihull's brief period as a County Borough (1966-74) and I think that Brighton and the two Sussexes shared a common police force, too (but I might be wrong on that one). They *all* shared Lords Lieutenant, since that was (and is) an office pertaining to the geographical (now "ceremonial" county, rather than the administrative one. Even Birmingham was ultimately under the Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire and Manchester under Lancashire, although they were obviously self governing in all respects. -- Ian Jelf, MITG, Birmingham, UK Registered "Blue Badge" Tourist Guide for London & the Heart of England http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk |
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In article , John Rowland
writes "Ian Jelf" wrote in message ... In article , Colin Rosenstiel writes The 1990s unitaries were made to fit in with post-1972 local government legislation which didn't include County Boroughs. They are essentially the same though modern unitaries are not the same as the old County Boroughs in a number of respects. Is a modern Unitary Authority the same as an old Soke? Latterly, I think that the only surviving Soke *was* Peterborough, although they had been commonplace in mediaeval times. Effectively County Borough = Unitary Authority + Soke (at least as far as Peterborough was concerned). As an aside, though, the Soke of Peterborough was in the geographical (or "Ceremonial" county of Northamptonshire. I suspect that the present Peterborough Unitary Authority is in the Geographical (or administrative) County of Cambridgeshire but I could be wrong. Someone here (Clive?) will know. I think that Brighton and the two Sussexes shared a common police force, too (but I might be wrong on that one). When did East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton exist as three separate counties? At least since 1889, I think, when the pre 1974 system was effectively set up. Certainly Sussex was divided administratively at that time (although I don't think along the exact border of the present day split. Brighton, being a County Borough, was separate from both and could therefore have had its own Police Authority (in those days called a "Watch Committee", but didn't. They *all* shared Lords Lieutenant, since that was (and is) an office pertaining to the geographical (now "ceremonial" county, rather than the administrative one. What does a Lord Lieutenant do, apart from, presumably, wear a hat and cost us money? I suspect that they don't cost us that much. They are the Sovereign's representative within a County. -- Ian Jelf, MITG, Birmingham, UK Registered "Blue Badge" Tourist Guide for London & the Heart of England http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk |
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"John Rowland" wrote in message ... I think that Brighton and the two Sussexes shared a common police force, too (but I might be wrong on that one). Yes, they do. Council tax bills for Brighton & Hove residents include a separately itemised amount for funding Sussex Police. When did East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton exist as three separate counties? Now. East Sussex CC, West Sussex CC, Brighton & Hove UA (AFAIAA East Sussex CC no longer has *any* administrative powers in Brighton and Hove). D A Stocks |
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In article , Ian Jelf
writes I suspect that the present Peterborough Unitary Authority is in the Geographical (or administrative) County of Cambridgeshire but I could be wrong. Someone here (Clive?) will know. Sorry to follow up my own post but a made a typing error there. That penultimate sentence should read "I suspect that the present Peterborough Unitary Authority is in the Geographical (or *ceremonial*) County of Cambridgeshire but I could be wrong." Sorry for the confusion. -- Ian Jelf, MITG, Birmingham, UK Registered "Blue Badge" Tourist Guide for London & the Heart of England http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk |
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