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What's in a postcode, eh?! I moved to "SW19" 30+ years ago, however, it was only when we exchanged did I discover that the house was in SW20: no thanks, estate agent - my street signs not having this embedded.
I lived there for five years, occasionally suffering the even worse Thameslink service then, but mainly making the one mile trek into Wimbledon, before finally moving closer for the next 20 years.
Ken | 02.01.19 - 7:24 a.m. | #
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"Cherry blossom's out, which seems very wrong at this time of year..."
Winter flowering cherries are a thing-there's a number scattered about London.
HoosierSands | Homepage | 02.01.19 - 7:42 a.m. | #
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Inconclusive, but my late 1950s/early 1960s A to Z lists The Downs as being in SW20.
Man of Kent | 02.01.19 - 9:57 a.m. | #
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And now having located an early 1970s Geographers' London Atlas, which shows the postcode boundaries on the map, The Downs is definitely wholly in SW20.
Which probably makes the sign an administrative error...
Man of Kent | 02.01.19 - 10:02 a.m. | #
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Royal Mail Postcode Finder only lists The Downs as SW20. No results for SW19.
dg writes: Because the entire road's in SW20.
Mike | 02.01.19 - 10:16 a.m. | #
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Royal Label Factory - in a typographical style that tips the hat to London Transport.
Happy New Year, by the way!
Marc | 02.01.19 - 10:46 a.m. | #
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Two paragraphs updated, thanks!
diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.01.19 - 11:02 a.m. | #
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My reproduction 1938 A-Z has The Downs in SW20 too.
I thought it was a clever bit of photo-shopping when I saw the picture yesterday!
Cornish Cockney | 02.01.19 - 11:05 a.m. | #
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Straddling a century: Wimbledon’s SW19, born in 1917; West Wimbledon’s SW20, born (like Golders Green’s NW11) in 1920 [as I said previously].
Notwithstanding Streetmap’s Bartholomew map showing South Merton station in SM4 and rail websites claiming it for SW20, an address for the station itself doesn’t seem to exist on Royal Mail’s files, presumably because there are no staff there to receive post. So who can say?
Rich G | Homepage | 02.01.19 - 12:04 p.m. | #
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Woot woot, many name checks on my road today. DG - shame we've never met; you could have popped in for a cuppa!
Geo_rich | 02.01.19 - 1:08 p.m. | #
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Need too! Always nice to see DG in my neck of the woods.
Mostyn Road is an interesting mix of ordinary and grander houses. Ronnie Wood used to live in one of the grander ones.
Eric | 02.01.19 - 1:53 p.m. | #
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Postcode areas are frequently shown on maps as if they were like local authority areas - partitions of the whole land area of the UK. However, is that really true? Is it meaningful to ask which postcode area a given oak tree in a field is in? Or is it only deliverable addresses which are allocated to a specific postcode?
Malcolm | 02.01.19 - 2:07 p.m. | #
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...postcode finder at Royal Mail says it SW20, do we believe that?
Vin | 02.01.19 - 3:44 p.m. | #
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SM4 is a 'pitifully lowly postcode' is it?
I am cancelling my subscription to this blog. Clearly it is too upmarket for the likes of me.
Morden resident | 02.01.19 - 3:45 p.m. | #
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"oh I say Tarquin, we have bought a house in SW20, the locals call it Raynes Park, how lower class. We must call this area West Wimbledon." Sheesh. When I lived round there I went to Bushey Middle School (now West Wimbledon Primary) and then Raynes Park High. If you look at a map you will see West Wimbledon Primary sits between Raynes Park High and Raynes Park Station. To us oldens that area NW of Raynes Park was known as Cottenham Park.
Love the error on the road sign with the over painted SW19, same thing happened in Tolworth when they corrected road signs and removed the "Surbiton" moniker - estate agents and "new Tolworthonians" went into meltdown when the house price dropped.
Chessington Resident | 02.01.19 - 3:48 p.m. | #
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I live in SW20
Cornish Monkey | 03.01.19 - 12:52 a.m. | #
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I have caught a train at South Merton just because. It was a Sunday morning and the Mosque next door was overflowing with people attempting and failing to park in the car park. The station is as bleak as described but rather than a 2 coach rattler turning up as would be the case in the north I had my first ride on the swish 700.
dg writes: The mosque is next to Morden South.
Rick | 03.01.19 - 11:20 a.m. | #
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