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By chance we were at Kensal Green cemetery on Saturday, walking the London Spiral walk. If by unlikely chance you have not visited, it’s well worth a look - we thought better than Brompton or Norwood, for example - and jam packed with infill modern burials.
Liz | 05.11.19 - 7:17 a.m. | #
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The ',' after Road on the last sign is a variation I haven't noticed before.
Still Anon | 05.11.19 - 7:22 a.m. | #
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Is there a reason you didn't keep going to HA9 and HA0? There may be sections of the road in between that are no longer 'Harrow Road', but it's still certainly the same road.
Al | 05.11.19 - 7:33 a.m. | #
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Green Lanes from Newington Green to Winchmore Hill passes through five North London Postal Districts, N16,N4, N8,13 and N21
Kenneth Morton | 05.11.19 - 7:46 a.m. | #
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My self-imposed rule was that the road mustn't change its name.
So Harrow Road is only Harrow Road as far as High Street in Harlesden (just as Edgware Road is only Edgware Road as far as Maida Vale, and Green Lanes is only Green Lanes as far as High Road in Wood Green).
diamond geezer | Homepage | 05.11.19 - 7:52 a.m. | #
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I was wondering that too, as when a Gt Gt grandfather brought his family up to London from Somerset in the late 1880s I've surmised that they probably first stayed with relatives in Paddington (because of the station) then followed the Harrow Road all the way through to King's Cross where they moved into tenements on Farringdon Road.
About a decade later he moved back to Paddington, living in the Bravington Road mentioned in the 3rd paragraph, with their 2 youngest children.
I now live at the rightful terminus of Harrow Road!
Cornish Cockney | 05.11.19 - 10:16 a.m. | #
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That's a sturdy pair of brackets on the Borough of Brent's streetname sign.
The film "The Blue Lamp" shows Harrow Road, the canal and its surrounds as it found them in 1950. Reelstreets has a grand selection of screenshots, with some of the "now" equivalents still to be supplied by film fans.
Pimlico Pete | 05.11.19 - 11:03 a.m. | #
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I'd like to know the reason for the wiggle in the bit of SE16 where I live surrounded on three sides by SE1. The nearest Post Office has the final collection at 5.30pm, but the Post Boxes which are closer to where I live get the SE1 collection time of 6.30pm.
Martin | 05.11.19 - 11:11 a.m. | #
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Stratford Road in Birmingham has five postcodes (B11, B28, B90, B93 and B94) although the house numbers start again going into B90.
Sprout Eater | 05.11.19 - 12:05 p.m. | #
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Great Cambridge Road has three postcodes in London (N17, N18 and EN1) and two in Hertfordshire (EN8 and EN10).
Sprout Eater | 05.11.19 - 12:30 p.m. | #
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Wimborne Road in Bournemouth crosses BH2, BH3, BH9, BH10 and BH11, is continuous, and has a more or less unbroken sequence of house numbers all the way up to the 1800s.
Interestingly the road it ends on, Ringwood Road, is also into four-digit numbers at this point (although it only spans BH14, BH12 and BH11 before resetting as it enters BH22).
Gregg | 05.11.19 - 5:21 p.m. | #
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As other have suggested other cities- Glasgow's mighty Great Western Road takes in G3 (just), G4, G12, G13, G15, G81 and G60. 10.5 miles from the M8 to Dunglass Roundabout without a change in name.
Al__S | 05.11.19 - 10:15 p.m. | #
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Great article of personal and family history relevance to me. Good to see a mention of The Blue Lamp here.
DavidC | 10.11.19 - 12:57 p.m. | #
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Around 10 years ago I walked for no particular reason I walked from the far end of Oxford Street to Stonebridge Park which took in the whole of this section walked and then some. It was interesting to see how the road changed along its route.
Rick | 10.11.19 - 3:54 p.m. | #
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