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One of your best squares posts. Thank you.

Alfie | 28.10.25 - 7:18 a.m. | #

I used to live in a mansion block where there was no No 13.

Chelmer Road in Homerton, named after the river which winds through Chelmsford, is square on three sides fwiw..

felix | 28.10.25 - 7:58 a.m. | #

I did the wigwam experiment. Description very good with hindsight. I failled the test slightly by misreading "hang below the washing line" as if it said "hang FROM the washing line".

Malcolm of Kent | 28.10.25 - 8:21 a.m. | #

That area used to be called west-West Hampstead by estate agens when I was looking around it in the early 2000's.
I've adopted the same term since, and now Brighton is south-South London, Reading is west-West London.

martin'O'Holcombe | 28.10.25 - 8:34 a.m. | #

HA7 4ER has no number 13. Number 11 has more garden than its neighbours. No I'm not jealous.

Mike Roberts | 28.10.25 - 9:04 a.m. | #

As regular volunteer litter pickers husband and I have acquired many freebies from our local parks and streets. Current favourite is the small knife I always use for tomatoes but during the Summer it was the hand held electric fan.

Ann H | 28.10.25 - 9:08 a.m. | #

I used to live in Chelmsford and then went to live in Aylestone Avenue just a few streets away from the square.
Oddly, I now live at no. 13

Ranger | 28.10.25 - 9:12 a.m. | #

I failed the wigwam test in the same way as Malcolm did.

Přemysl Otakar II Square in České Budějovice, Czechia is 133m x 133m, but that's a bit of a trek from bus stop M.

miker | 28.10.25 - 9:41 a.m. | #

That was an interesting post.

My road has no 13, though its absence isn't immediately obvious as the house numbers are otherwise consecutive rather than odds one side and evens the other. 12 is therefore next to 14 which on most roads would be quite normal.

Andrew S | 28.10.25 - 9:41 a.m. | #

The best freebie I found in a public park is a 20 pound note, but that's not at all interesting. I once found an Oakland A's baseball cap in a public parking lot, and wore it for years afterwards. My friends were appalled when I took it, telling me I'd get lice from it. But it was all fine.

Greg | 28.10.25 - 9:51 a.m. | #

Sadly, snitching on anyone looking suspicious these days is less busybody and more necessity.

David B | 28.10.25 - 11:17 a.m. | #

My road doesn't have a no. 13

Le Ver | 28.10.25 - 11:38 a.m. | #

I think the main part of the square looks like of those gadgets you use to get a sim card out of a phone.

Karl, Dover | 28.10.25 - 11:38 a.m. | #

I can assure you we don’t want to hear about *everyone* suspicious.

A Police Officer Writes | 28.10.25 - 12:17 p.m. | #

The squarest Square I can think of is Fitzroy Square but whether it meets the DG stringent 'square' requirements I can't be sure. Also the garden is round so that might rule it out altogether.

Johnny Topaz | 28.10.25 - 1:48 p.m. | #

I had relatives live at 11A on their street, conveniently located between 11 and 15 on the odds side, and built at the same time as the rest of the road

Andy | 28.10.25 - 1:48 p.m. | #

The road where I lived in Darlington didn't have a number 13, also the adjacent streets built at the same time (1930's) are also missing 13.

John | 28.10.25 - 2:50 p.m. | #

The only freebie I've found in a park was quite recent - a brand new coffee mug, still with its barcode sticker on.

Alan S | 28.10.25 - 5:20 p.m. | #

I'm a native of Chelmsford. By a strange coincidence, growing up there was also like "hanging from a washing line inside a wigwam, attached via a small triangular clip".

Marshwerg | 28.10.25 - 6:26 p.m. | #

My road doesn't have a 13 - although it rises to 34 on one side, the other only reaches 11; an anomaly of alternate numbering.

When our local council introduced numbering to one part of our town in the 1960s, the roads concerned each had a number 11 skipping directly to 15 adjacent.

The first address of my years living in London was a no. 13 - the ill omen was certainly fulfilled. I don't think anyone had lived there since.

cau1khead | 28.10.25 - 7:02 p.m. | #

A road local to me doesn't have a no. 13, having instead no. 12a between nos. 11 and 15. I presume this causes confusion to anyone trying to deliver something for the first time, who I would expect to be looking on the even-numbered side of the road.

Trevor S | 28.10.25 - 10:23 p.m. | #

As this is just off Chamerlayne Road this is firmly Kensal Green. I know of at least one friend on an adjacent street who rather tenuously refers to the area as Queens Park.

David | 28.10.25 - 10:53 p.m. | #

I visited the Place d'Ipswich (in Arras) the day /before/ returning to Ipswich, but that's probably insufficiently interesting.

Lmm | 29.10.25 - 3:39 a.m. | #

My terraced road does have a number 13, but it is missing a number 11. Number 13's neighbours are numbers 9 and 15.

Perhaps someone non-superstitious changed what was originally number 11 to 13?

JonathanC | 30.10.25 - 4:53 p.m. | #











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