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A capital post today (not........)

NLW | 21.01.21 - 7:01 a.m. | #

Kink's song!!!! Small Faces, the best band of the 60s, DG.

dg writes: fixed thanks,

PJS | 21.01.21 - 7:08 a.m. | #

The fact that thousands of people have driven through suggests either a) they are happy to pay a c£45 fine to save a few minutes driving or b) it isn't clearly enough marked.

b) seems a very plausible explanation (how often do you see the low flying motorbikes sign?).

If a) was true, then as a council tax payer, I would have to wonder why we don't see more council services subsidised by £45 a pop shortcuts.

Itchycoo Park is a Steve Marriott/Ronnie Lane co-write.

Will | 21.01.21 - 8:08 a.m. | #

Did you get as far as the street called Ronnie Lane? It's just off Walton Road near Little Ilford Park.

Paul Draper | 21.01.21 - 8:47 a.m. | #

I don't mind the no capitals (it's how I text after all) but it looks really odd with full stops

Caroline | 21.01.21 - 9:18 a.m. | #

Have just read a biography of Herbert Hensley Henson, Bishop of Durham from 1918 - 1938. He was chaplain at St. Mary's Little Ilford 1895-1900. Delighted to learn about it from this post.

David Cook | 21.01.21 - 9:25 a.m. | #

Closures like the Browning Road one do let themselves down rather by not telling motorists which way to go instead. A delivery driver for instance may already have encountered a couple of one way streets precenting access and almost in desperation seeing no other way will decide to chance it.

On the other hand some motorists are just plain stupid.

Andrew S | 21.01.21 - 9:58 a.m. | #

must be a 'spot the capital' competition dg. i have found one so far! you'll need to look carefully.

Dave | 21.01.21 - 10:36 a.m. | #

The cameras in the new Lee LTN in Lewisham raised 3.1 million quid in the first few months so little ilford has a challenger!

Chris | 21.01.21 - 11:01 a.m. | #

Ah. A post about road signs. Always welcome. I am sure that is why you went really.

Pedantic of Purley | 21.01.21 - 11:04 a.m. | #

tHERE mUST bE a rEASON

biFf | 21.01.21 - 11:33 a.m. | #

i thought dg was being kind to us, to make the "i" and the "l" in ilford more legible in the chosen font. however, then i scrolled down, and saw that the capital i's normally have [looks at wikipedia] an arm to them.

Philip | 21.01.21 - 11:53 a.m. | #

my take on the reason is that the post is about little ilford, so it naturally gets written using only little letters.
no peter, it's not called lower case ilford.

malcolm of kent | 21.01.21 - 11:54 a.m. | #

Haha, Little Ilford is very well known

It’s a strange place, being a massive area of side streets with no main roads but also acting as the most direct way between East Ham and Ilford. The 147 double deck barely fits along the streets, which could be a reason in the amount of PCNs. The highway laws are confusing but have to be followed strictly because of the bus

PVR | 21.01.21 - 12:27 p.m. | #

looking at browning bridge on google streetview - dated april 2019 - it only shows signs for the northbound restriction. and on the newham council website it talks about introduction of new 'browning road bridge' traffic scheme in august 2019 - which (presumably) brought in the southbound restriction.

did the 'new' scheme in some sense take over or supersede the old one? or are the traffic restrictions imposed by two separate traffic orders (one for each direction)?

also, i note that browning road forms part of the B165, and as such i would regard it as a 'legitimate' through route.

Jeremy GH | 21.01.21 - 12:38 p.m. | #

It is so frustratingly difficult to get changes made to Google Maps.

It took me months to get four LTN-related road closures properly reflected.

There seems to be no one at Google that local authorities can liaise directly with.

Hybert Dott | Homepage | 21.01.21 - 1:51 p.m. | #

Knew the area well in the 1950’s/60’s as we lived in Manor Park in one of the back streets off Browning Road. In those days they were all unrestricted two-way streets, but very few families had cars except those who worked at Fords in Dagenham.

Used to catch the 147 from a stop in Browning Road to go to Ilford and Valentines Park to watch the County Cricket there.

As well as Little Ilford Park, the other green space in the area was the Barrington Road / Gainsborough Ave playing field, which can be found where the road bends to go under the railway lines by the C2C train depot. It was used by the local schools for athletics. We used to have our Infants and Junior school Sport’s Days there. This was well before the A406 was built next to it. It backed onto the River Roding, which was the boundary between Manor Park and Ilford. It now has a large ventilation shaft plonked down on part of it.

In more recent pre-Covid times it was a nostalgia trip when I caught C2C to Liverpool Street as it uses the link between Barking - Woodgrange Park. Although in the old days my friends and I couldn’t train-spot from Browning Street Bridge, you could from the next one down (Essex Road / Church Road).

IanD | 21.01.21 - 3:40 p.m. | #

no capitals from dg (other than when quoting a rant). what is the world cumming to?

Notts observer | 21.01.21 - 5:54 p.m. | #

In many sans-serif typefaces, such as Futura, the capital "i" is shorter than the lowercase "L", so it's possible that a capital "i" could have been snuck in somewhere. Doubt it though.

Harry | Homepage | 21.01.21 - 8:31 p.m. | #

HAVE YOU CONSIDERED VISITING UPPER HOLLOWAY?

quin | 21.01.21 - 9:57 p.m. | #

thank you, d g cummings

Chris | 21.01.21 - 10:48 p.m. | #

I was a regular on the 147 around 15 years ago and the traffic levels cutting through that area were silly, especially at school start and end times. I would guess the designation of Browning Road as a B road came long before the level of car parking in the area had reached current levels. The bus needed to do some skilled and quite assertive driving to negotiate the busy single track sections and standoffs were common with drivers who wouldn't yield!

Nico Hogg | 22.01.21 - 7:03 a.m. | #

Itchycoo Park, was this not the song based on Little Ilford Park sang by Small Faces, and remixed by M People in the 90s. If so, another claim to fame for Little Ilford!

Lucas | 27.01.21 - 10:49 p.m. | #











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