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Post by mitcham_badlander on Aug 24, 2018 15:47:34 GMT
They may take our local government, but they'll never take our postal county! |
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Post by oohaah on Aug 24, 2018 17:13:05 GMT
...and who's going to tell the youf that there's no Sowf London (la la la). Surely it’s Sarf London or is that only to a Cockney?😱 Scarf is Cockney, Sowf is poor enunciation 😁 |
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Post by brisfitboy on Aug 24, 2018 18:05:46 GMT
Surely it’s Sarf London or is that only to a Cockney?😱 Scarf is Cockney, Sowf is poor enunciation 😁 I think you’d get it in the neck if you said that to a Cockney 🤔 |
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Post by jamesmichaelcooper on Aug 25, 2018 17:37:30 GMT
What I've always found strange is how postcodes work. For instance Worcester Park is KT4 but is in the London Borough of Sutton. I'm sure there's plenty of other examples. New Addington is CR0 but so is Waddon! Why it's not CR10 i have no idea. Always baffled me (not hard I know). Incidentally Croydon is the only postcode area in the UK with a zero postcode (CR0) and there is no CR1. I must be mistaken here but I thought I had seen other 0 postcodes. Wonder why I thought that. Worcester Park is actually in three different administrative areas, jr. Roughly speaking, the bit west of the railway line but south of the station is in Epsom & Ewell. Everything else west of the railway line is Kingston. The remainder, including all the main shops, is Sutton. I used to live in Pembury Avenue and I remember one year when it snowed Sutton Council cleared the snow from about half the road and then abruptly stopped and left the rest of the street snowy. If you looked carefully you could see the line coincided with where Kingston wheelie bins started to appear outside houses. As someone upthread said, one could make an argument for dividing London/Not-London by postcode, but only an extremely unconvincing one, especially when there is already a clear cut boundary marked by London's constituent boroughs. County, city and borough boundaries change over time to reflect urban growth amongst other things. What was once way outside London has become part of it due to the huge spread of the city. However, postal addresses and postcodes rarely change to match for obvious reasons - that would cause a LOT of confusion. Postcodes and addresses therefore contain a lot of "fossils" (the most obvious example being the county of Middlesex). Using such out of date markers to argue about the current situation makes about as much sense as using the pre-1965 boundaries to insist that's how things still are. Hi ex neighbour...... Pembury Ave here too. Just got back here from today's game (via a pint in The Harrow) It's still the same, Sutton council grit up to the junction with Caverleigh Way, and then after that ..... No-one bothers. Even though I'm a Kingston resident though, it doesn't stop me going and filling up a couple of buckets of sand from the handily placed big yellow Sutton dispensers in Green lane and up Central Rd. |
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Post by sallycat on Aug 25, 2018 19:13:26 GMT
Good work. I was at the Kingston end too. No.102
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