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That Smithfield Market #nerdfact is an excellent #nerdfact I will soon be dropping into conversation to much eye rolling and yawning.
Scott | Homepage | 27.09.21 - 7:36 a.m. | #
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I really enjoy these snapshots, and will be disappointed if you avoid the temptation to introduce Random City B Roads as a irregular feature.
Frank F | 27.09.21 - 8:41 a.m. | #
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I have no plans to do the other two.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 27.09.21 - 8:45 a.m. | #
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The road sign in your third (and possibly also your first) picture seems to have a replaceable panel.
jack hopkins | 27.09.21 - 8:58 a.m. | #
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Two additional facts that are very much B500 related - De Beers has a helipad on the top of the building, and when working nearby, you know if a helicopter is due, because two fire fighters turn up to man it. Secondly the building with the park outside is home of a global rail company.
Jordan D | 27.09.21 - 9:43 a.m. | #
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Great daily blogs. Being slightly pedantic there actually are no 'roads' in the City of London. Streets, Squares etc. but no roads.
Barry Coppock | 27.09.21 - 10:22 a.m. | #
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...apart from Goswell Road.
THC | 27.09.21 - 10:33 a.m. | #
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Indeed, lots of roads but only one Road.
(also, being slightly pedantic, I write daily blogposts not daily blogs)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 27.09.21 - 10:39 a.m. | #
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Fascinating. Could you do a piece on what a road needs to do to be classified "A", "B" or unclassified. Is it traffic flow, width, or transport planners whim? There must be a Department of Transport manual somewhere.
dg writes: I bow to SABRE on that.
south london lad | 27.09.21 - 10:42 a.m. | #
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The road numbering aspect is fascinating. There USED to be a B200 around London Bridge station, but it's been swallowed up by pedestrianisation and the A200.
I hadn't realised that statue at Holborn Circus had been moved. Google Streetview is a useful historical record to see such changes
Mikey C | 27.09.21 - 10:55 a.m. | #
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Nice one.
Cornish Cockney | 27.09.21 - 11:08 a.m. | #
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The City of London are also planning to change the road layout at Bank in connection with the upgrade of the station, so they'll be further breaks with the past.
That photo with the damaged road sign gives the impression of not having scanned properly, like a real life 'glitch in the matrix'.
Still Anon | 27.09.21 - 12:25 p.m. | #
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Appropriately posted at 05:00, I see.
Alan S | 27.09.21 - 12:30 p.m. | #
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I wonder where the West End is defined to be if the A40 goes there but the A4 doesn't.
kev | 27.09.21 - 2:26 p.m. | #
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I now want...nay, need..a post on the goings on of Ely Place. According to the map; there's a hidden pub, Ye Old Miter; a catholic church; and the Gemological Association of Great Britain. That sound like a full day sorted right there.
dg writes: You could start here and here.
Steven | 27.09.21 - 7:51 p.m. | #
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Thank you for this post and Steven for your comment. I was able to fit Ely Place into my itinerary yesterday.
Yes, Ye Olde Mitre pub entrance is impossible to spot from there, however, it is much closer to and has signage from Hatton Garden (B521 - the stub on the five-way street sign), abutting Charterhouse Street, not so hard to find from this direction.
I can't say any more as it is not germane to the post.
Ken | 29.09.21 - 9:11 a.m. | #
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