In message , Paul Terry
writes
Mind you Lord Archer lives in a tower block in SE11 which must be
worth several million

A good deal more than that, I suspect. There's a small two-bedroom flat
in the same block currently on the market for 3.5 million if you are
interested ...


And live in the same block as Archer & Peter Stringfellow !!

I'd expect a reduction in my council tax :-)

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Edward Cowling "Must go - Another Year Another Sheet Change !"

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:28:05 +0000, Edward Cowling London UK
wrote:

Mind you Lord Archer lives in a tower block in SE11 which must be worth
several million, but I'm darned if I'd want to live in SE11 :-)

SW11 surely if you're referring to Battersea?
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Paul C


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On 12 Mar, 18:43, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:28:05 +0000, Edward Cowling London UK

wrote:
Mind you Lord Archer lives in a tower block in SE11 which must be worth
several million, but I'm darned if I'd want to live in SE11 :-)

SW11 surely if you're referring to Battersea?


I'm away from my maps, but I think they border each other. SE11 would
be based on Kennington I think, alphabetically (SE9 Eltham, SE10
Greenwich, SE11 Kennington, SE12 Lee, SE13 Lewisham ...)

In message , Paul Corfield
writes

SW11 surely if you're referring to Battersea?

Edward was referring to Vauxhall, which comes under SE11 (Kennington
postal area). It is adjacent to SW11 (which is Battersea).

The way that London postal district numbers developed has a strange
logic, largely based on the location of head sorting offices (and the
whims of Anthony Trollope).
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Paul Terry

Edward Cowling London UK wrote:
In message
,
Mizter T writes
passing bus). The journey on the 344 from Vauxhall will take less
than 15 minutes off-peak, and the service runs frequently.

Battersea really isn't that hard to get to!

It's the haven of the cheap office crowd. Courier companies and
Telesales, and all because it's transport blighted. Put a decent tube
link in and the area would blossom. In the ends it took me 2 hours to
get from Palmers Green to Battersea Bridge.

The TfL Journey Planner shows journeys of 67 - 72 minutes at 20-minute
intervals via FCC to Finsbury Park, Piccadily Line to South Kensington, and
the 49 bus from there. What took you so long?
--
Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)

In message , Richard J.
writes
Edward Cowling London UK wrote:
In message
,
Mizter T writes
passing bus). The journey on the 344 from Vauxhall will take less
than 15 minutes off-peak, and the service runs frequently.

Battersea really isn't that hard to get to!

It's the haven of the cheap office crowd. Courier companies and
Telesales, and all because it's transport blighted. Put a decent tube
link in and the area would blossom. In the ends it took me 2 hours to
get from Palmers Green to Battersea Bridge.

The TfL Journey Planner shows journeys of 67 - 72 minutes at 20-minute
intervals via FCC to Finsbury Park, Piccadily Line to South Kensington, and
the 49 bus from there. What took you so long?

Real life as opposed to the journey planner :-) Funny enough the time
for the Victoria Line to go from Highbury to Vauxhall is always quoted
as 15 minutes. In 9 months of using the line every day my average time
was around 25 minutes. I think the guy who did the times in Autoroute
used the same Ferrari burning nitro model for TFL :-)

And just don't get me onto the number of times every week that my train
from Highbury to Palmers Green simply stops dead at Finsbury Park, gets
diverted to Kings Cross in the morning, grinds to a halt completely, or
any one of another dozen reasons to make me get home late.

Arrrghhhh !!

--
Edward Cowling "Must go - Another Year Another Sheet Change !"

On 12 Mar, 12:33, Edward Cowling London UK
wrote:
In message

Put a decent tube link in and the area would blossom. In the ends it took me 2 hours to
get from Palmers Green to Battersea Bridge. *I may have been unlucky,
but no one is going to do that twice a day out of choice.

That's a typical north London attitude along the lines of the famous
newspaper headline "Fog in Channel. Europe cut off". Those of us in
the civilised part of London (south of the river) find little trouble
in moving around using things called trains and even buses. The almost
complete absence of the underground network isn't any sort of problem
at all. You should get out more ;-)

Peter

On 12 Mar, 18:43, Paul Corfield wrote:
SW11 surely if you're referring to Battersea?

MIG wrote:
I'm away from my maps, but I think they border each other. SE11 would
be based on Kennington I think, alphabetically (SE9 Eltham, SE10
Greenwich, SE11 Kennington, SE12 Lee, SE13 Lewisham ...)

SE11 is Kennington, yes, but SW8 (Stockwell) is in between that and Battersea.

Kake

Peter Heather wrote:
On 12 Mar, 12:33, Edward Cowling London UK
wrote:
In message

Put a decent tube link in and the area would blossom. In the ends it
took me 2 hours to get from Palmers Green to Battersea Bridge. I may
have been unlucky,
but no one is going to do that twice a day out of choice.

That's a typical north London attitude along the lines of the famous
newspaper headline "Fog in Channel. Europe cut off". Those of us in
the civilised part of London (south of the river) find little trouble
in moving around using things called trains and even buses. The almost
complete absence of the underground network isn't any sort of problem
at all. You should get out more ;-)


Yes - a nice cheap improvement showing transport availability for those
heading south of the river would be to remove all the 'tube maps' and put
ATOC 'London Connections' maps up everywhere.

Quite easy to implement I would have thought...

Paul S

On 13 Mar, 09:46, "Paul Scott" wrote:
Yes - a nice cheap improvement showing transport availability for those
heading south of the river would be to remove all the 'tube maps' and put
ATOC 'London Connections' maps up everywhere.

In fact TfL have such a map already:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloa...rvices-map.pdf

It at least used to be a common sight in tube stations where a tube
map would otherwise be, but I don't recall noticing it recently.

U

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