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Post Office Alley in Chiswick, London
"John Rowland" wrote in message ... Richard J. wrote: John Rowland wrote: In Thames Rd aka Strand On The Green, just west of the railway bridge is an alley called Post Office Alley which contains a small old floodgate at the river end. Set into one wall of this alleyway is a line of solid metal knobs which are shaped like carpentry dovetails. The line is level (i.e. level with a spirit level rather than level with the rather sloping ground). There is nothing in the other side of the alley. I presume they serve some flood defence purpose but I can't figure it out. Any clues? I can't help with your question, but just to correct one point in your post: Thames Road is not "aka" Strand on the Green. The name Strand on the Green is applied both to (a) the riverside village just downstream from Kew Bridge, and (b) within that village the highway along the river bank. That highway starts as a road but the road soon veers away from the river at which point it becomes Thames Road. Strand on the Green (the highway) continues along the river bank as a mere towpath, but still has houses fronting on to it (with postal addresses of xx Strand on the Green) whose land reaches back as far as Thames Road, sometimes with separate buildings fronting on to Thames Road. Buildings or gates on the south side of Thames Road may therefore carry either Thames Road numbers or Strand on the Green numbers, usually without specifying which. As far as I remember, the situation is not helped by the numbers on the two roads running in different directions. Finding house number X in Thames Road can be difficult! "What is the name of this road" is often a surprisingly difficult question to answer: it is not rare for the two sides of a road to have different names, although this is a particularly unusual example, because there are Thames Road properties on both sides of the road, and there are Strand On The Green properties on both sides of the road, and the experience of someone driving along the road is that both sides of the road are changing name back and forth. In particular, there are some properties numbered as Strand On The Green on the north side of the road east of the point where Thames Road starts, which defeats your argument. Therefore I don't consider my original post to be in need of correction. That'll have been estate agents at work. Even in the 1930's. "Thames Road" sounds like it should be next to a gas works in Barking Reach or sonewhere similar "Strand on The Green" has always far more cachet. Zoffani etc etc. Various properties probably started off being described as in the "Strand on the Green Area" I'm not sure about the actual legal position - house deeds are based on maps not simply addresses - apparently just so long as the Post Office can find the address and mail reaches the correct recipient nobody is really that bothered. Must make census records confusing though I'imagine. michael adams |
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