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Post Office Alley in Chiswick, London
"Tom Anderson" wrote in message h.li... On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, michael adams wrote: "John Rowland" wrote in message ... Richard J. wrote: John Rowland wrote: In Thames Rd aka Strand On The Green, 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. "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. Just a thought. What you see on Strand on The Green are the backs of the houses. Same as the top end of Park Lane whose "actual address" is far less prestigeous. So possibly in both cases the owners have taken advantage of the fact that their houses stand on two thoroughfares and have chosed the better one - even fitting a letter box if necessary. And just so lang as there's no intention to decieve that's presumably o.k. Here's another thought: if you had a letterbox on both sides, could you have two addresses? Do addresses in fact belong to letterboxes, and not houses? All I remember reading is that the first 20 or so houses in Park Lane from the Marble Arch end, aren't actually in Park Lane at all but in Dunraven Street. I don't know what they put on their letterheads. And as Park Lane only has houses on one side....I've never bothered to actually check where No 1 is. michael adams .... That's true, mutatis mutandis, of internet addresses and network interfaces. I was very confused when i realised that my computer didn't actually have an internet address, but my network card did! And am still slightly confused by the fact that it's my computer which has the domain name ... isn't it? tom -- an optical recording release. copyright digitally mastered. ., |
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