How Tatty Is Your London A-Z

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'll scan in the tube map. Any other areas you want? I might be able to put this on tonight.

Brixton Hill area please

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'll scan in the tube map. Any other areas you want? I might be able to put this on tonight.

Does it have a Theatres page?

 

[boohoo]

Does it have a Theatres page?

It does have info on central london theatres.

 

[tim]

I got one of these for a change last time

and it's crap, streets missing and alleys etc not shown.

 

[rennie]

its' in tatters n missing a few pages. but it does the trick.

 

[lighterthief]

Mine is about 10 years old. I recently rebound it with gaffer tape.

 

[beeboo]

I keep losing or mislaying mine and having to buy new ones. I hate walking round London with a new A-Z – a scruffy beaten up one shows you’ve been round the block a few times (probably literally!).

Mind you in the streetmap/multimap era we are in, I tend to print off maps of where I’m heading if it is somewhere I don’t know.

Although I think I’ve been here long enough now to manage without an A-Z most of the time

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It does have info on central london theatres.

yeah, stick them up as well. Let's see how much has changed since then or what's been renamed

 

[Onket]

Just do each page, might as well.

 

[laptop]

Where's the "I don't know whether I still have one - if I do it's pristine because I lose them so often - so these days I usually print a page from www.streetmap.co.uk and they get very tatty very fast" option?

 

[beeboo]

Where's the "I don't know whether I still have one - if I do it's pristine because I lose them so often - so these days I usually print a page from www.streetmap.co.uk and they get very tatty very fast" option?

I know, that is the option I needed as well!

 

[ngeru]

I have/had four but keep misplacing the buggers.

The only one I've been using recently has its cover missing but apart from that it's fully intact. The others are/were in tip-top shape pretty much... down to lack of use no doubt as hell knows where they are!

 

[pembrokestephen]

Not sure if it is just me but these things seem to fall apart in my hands. The first thing to go is a couple of pages will tear out of the middle, then the binding rings seem to start un-hooking at the top and bottom.

These buggers are £6 a go and should be designed to be carried about.

Rant, rant..........

The paper's REALLY shit. That's the problem.

You're right - at £6 a go, they should be a bit better quality.

 

[davesgcr]

Mine was 2/-6

My fathers old one ! - still works (sort of) - only once caught out in Ilford !

Meldrew would approve

 

[geminisnake]

thats cos you live hundreds of miles away

Strangely enough that's exactly what hubby said

 

[timebomb]

My London A-Z is pretty mint, but probably no good anymore for commercial driving use as it's about 5 years old now.

My Norfolk Atlas is also doing pretty well considering it gets used nearly all day every weekday.

I look after my tools.

 

[marty21]

i used to tear out the page for the place i was going to, and then forget to put it back in

still i could tell i'd been somewhere before, because the page was missing when i wanted to go there again

 

[i_hate_beckham]

Only just clicked on this out of boredom.

The last poll option made me laugh.

 

[gonetoosoon]

Not sure if it is just me but these things seem to fall apart in my hands. The first thing to go is a couple of pages will tear out of the middle, then the binding rings seem to start un-hooking at the top and bottom.

These buggers are £6 a go and should be designed to be carried about.

Rant, rant..........

i have a waterproof one for when the thames floods

 

[chio]

I'm rarely down there these days, but the A-Z got soggy in my bag last time I was in London so it's tatty anyway

This one, on the other hand, is completely knackered:

 

[liberty]

Mine was in a right mess so I brought a new one.. Then last week two centre pages came out.. I think they are supposed to look a mess

 

[Mrs Magpie]

My many copies of the A-Z tend to disappear via guests visiting London...I have a massive de-luxe edition which is too cumbersome to leave the house though....

 

[Donna Ferentes]

It's not an A-Z unless it's held together with sellotape.

 

[Badgers]

Since posting this thread I have found two more in my flat. They all seem to be in the same 'new but falling apart' condtion?

 

[RubyToogood]

Mine is not too bad. I don't consult it all that much, as I also have a big fold-out A-Z map pinned to the wall which is much more useful for planning road journeys.

 

[chio]

I've got a sixth edition Manchester A-Z from the 70s

 

[maomao]

When I was a courier I would on average forget my a-z once every 2-3 weeks. This meant I probably had one of the largest collections of identical a-zs in London. Most of them have been given away now though and all that's left is a couple of particularly tatty ones.

 

[Badgers]

I think that I need a new one soon....
Guess that could just look at maps on my phone or whatever but kinda need to have a (complete with no pages missing) A-Z at home

 

[5t3IIa]

Old thread is old

Mine has the covers sellotaped on and pages are loose so it's secured with a rubber band. I like to snap off the band like Indy does to his notebook when he is working out where the Staff of Ra should go in the Well of Souls

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Mine's tatted. Everytime I go out and am in need of mappness I pop in to a Shell or Esso and nick one