please empty your brain below
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So is there a logic to the streets you have chosen?
ian | Homepage | 01.08.06 - 1:44 a.m. | #
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When you look properly, everything is fascinating.
Thank you for that post.
stitchwort | Homepage | 01.08.06 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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My mother's family moved to a house in Merchant Street, E3 from a tenament in Umberston Street, E1 in 1929. They had saved diligently, and paid £350 in cash for their pretty little house. My mother always said it was best place she'd lived.
In those days, a move from Stepney to Bow was a big step up in the world, but still near enough to Watney Street Market for my grandfather to walk to his shop. He had a fruit shop under the railway arch, and was known as Mr. Solly, though in fact his name was nothing like that.
Every springtime, a man named Mr. Lefevre (Hugenot background?) came and painted the interior walls of the house with distemper, nobody did it themselves.
The house suffered some bomb damage during the war, and my grandparents were forced to move into rented accomodation. After the war, the house was bought by the Local Authority, for a pittance and demolished to make way for social housing.
Chairwoman | Homepage | 01.08.06 - 10:06 a.m. | #
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I hate when local councils decide to replace the street signs. These old "Borough of Poplar" signs are much nicer than the tacky modern things with council
eighbourhood logos on them.
Michael | 01.08.06 - 11:38 a.m. | #
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i'm not sure i can face this for a whole month
markT | 01.08.06 - 1:15 p.m. | #
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"Converse to what you might expect, there's only one proper 'Bow Road' street sign along Bow Road."
the lack of street signage is designed to send non-locals into a anti-london frenzy...imho London is notorious for a lack of street-name signage, especially on the longer roads!
verity74 | 01.08.06 - 1:17 p.m. | #
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Ah come on 'markT'. I have every confidence Diamond Geezer is going to pull this one off. He always does.
rb | Homepage | 01.08.06 - 7:26 p.m. | #
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Hmmmm..... seems as though DG has followed my advice given in the comments on 13th July...
"5. Month-long feature including a photograph of a road sign from every street in the borough of Bexley, carefully arranged in alphabetical order, with older streets being placed first where names are duplicated. More suburban tedium than even Jean Rolin dreamed of.
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Venichka | 01.08.06 - 8:20 p.m. | #
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Camden Council put a load of retro signs up a couple of years back proclaiming their streets to be in the old boroughs of Holborn or St Pancras. Which is just confusing.
Inspector Sands | Homepage | 01.08.06 - 8:29 p.m. | #
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Looking out onto the Gleebe Road sign as I write this, you omitted to mention the later sign above reading Gleebe Terrace. I believe this dates from the 1930s when many roads were renamed to avoid duplication.
Kim | 01.08.06 - 10:03 p.m. | #
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Kim - the second sign's not mentioned in today's main post, but I do have a photograph of it in my photo album.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.08.06 - 10:07 p.m. | #
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Round here (Richmond borough) we still have a lot of the old signs like Burtons-road, with the hyphen and small cap on the second word.
Debster | 02.08.06 - 9:34 a.m. | #
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Another good anomaly are the Clapton area street signs which still carry the long-vanished "NE" postal district code (no number as they were abolished before these were introduced).
Kim | 03.08.06 - 1:55 a.m. | #
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I am a Trustee of a charity which owns a building designed by CFA Voysey.
I am a founder member of The CFA Voysey Society formed this year.
We would like to make links with other lovers of this famous Arts and Crafts architect.
Thank you for any help you can give
Mike Duda | 14.11.07 - 9:56 p.m. | #
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