Addresses in London ( a short rant)

[JTG]

I can't see a gaping hole around north and west London so it would seem that Middlesex has reappeared even if it did 'vanish decades ago'.

Counties exist forever, governments can't abolish them.

 

[JWH]

what are you talking about? a county is just a governmental administrative subdivision.

 

[JTG]

No it isn't. Not for people who relate to them they're not. England doesn't exist as a governmental administrative area, does that mean it doesn't exist?

No romance some people.

 

[JTG]

For somewhere that doesn't exist, Middlesex seems to be doing awfully well in terms of having hospitals, a university and a county cricket club named after it. Amongst other things.

 

[JWH]

I dunno, there's plenty of schools called Christ the Saviour, so that doesn't prove anything...

 

[Donna Ferentes]

For somewhere that doesn't exist, Middlesex seems to be doing awfully well in terms of having hospitals, a university and a county cricket club named after it. Amongst other things.

Not that the county cricket club are doing awfully well. Might even lose to Gloucestershire tomorrow. Relegation looms.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

for postal purposes as long as the correct postcode is there, the area doesn't matter.

Well, you'd think so, wouldn't you...when I lived on the Loughborough Estate in Brixton, my post (with correct SW9 postcode) would often arrive after a little sojourn to Leicestershire.....

 

[Isambard]

For somewhere that doesn't exist, Middlesex seems to be doing awfully well

You be careful on Middlesex young man or as a "born and bred" Middlesexian (whatever) I'll have to spank you!

All this "Back to Middlesex" bollocks is a Tory ploy to flee the "Loony Left" of Ken Livingstone.
I'd rather have Ken than Cuttler, Porter, Archer, Norris.

Bus 207, the best in the West!

 

[Poi E]

No, it was a "postal county" until as recently as 1996.

People who don't live in the actual towns of Enfield, Harrow or Uxbridge have been resistant to using EN, HA or UB postcodes respectively - in exactly the same way other that bits of Greater London outside the London postal districts have clung on to Essex, Kent, Hertfordshire and Surrey in their addresses.

Ok almost a decade ago. Good example of English regionalism, all that harking back to days of yore, the idealised countryside etc.

 

[JTG]

Ok almost a decade ago. Good example of English regionalism, all that harking back to days of yore, the idealised countryside etc.

Or indeed giving the areas they live in their correct name.

 

[Poi E]

Or indeed giving the areas they live in their correct name.

And that would be the boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, and Richmond upon Thames.

 

[JTG]

And that would be the boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, and Richmond upon Thames.

Yes. All wholly or partly in Middlesex

 

[William of Walworth]

Bus 207, the best in the West!

The last Conductor** in the West

**You'd have to go back a few years to remember when the 207 stopped being a Routemaster .....in fact I don't exactly remember when that was myself ....

 

[Poi E]

Yes. All wholly or partly in Middlesex