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Great article about the RAT.

DavidC | 13.12.21 - 7:27 a.m. | #

I saw the RAT passing through Fairlop station this Saturday morning, about 9.30. I also spotted it at Barkingside a few weeks ago, also on a Saturday morning.

Alan S | 13.12.21 - 8:49 a.m. | #

Insertion of the RAT picture reminded me of the subliminal images that Spitting Image and The Young Ones (if I remember correctly) put into their programmes, viewable only by freeze-framing replay on a video recorder. One even went so far as to reference the other.

Man of Kent | 13.12.21 - 9:05 a.m. | #

That playground is notorious locally as, anecdotally, neighbours are kept awake at night by prostitutes and their clients having sex in the enclosed play equipment. I have not been there at night to check the veracity of this, preferring instead to get off the no 73 bus nearby and high tail it home.

Wendy | 13.12.21 - 10:00 a.m. | #

Padded or not, it's another great post with plenty to make me think 'ah, I remember seeing that on DG' if I'm ever passing through!

Cornish Cockney | 13.12.21 - 10:20 a.m. | #

Well, this might have seemed dull to some, but in the course of reading it I learned that the road I live on is home to fully 6% of those remaining NE postal distict road signs, and that’s enlivened an otherwise dreary Monday morning no end...

CJS | 13.12.21 - 10:39 a.m. | #

One of the best yet - the B111 is pure gold. Thanks for describing this road.

cau1khead | 13.12.21 - 12:44 p.m. | #

It's easy to forget how environmentally damaging the Victorian railway builders where, and the number of open spaces they plough through, in a similar manner to the road builders of the 1960s!

Mikey C | 13.12.21 - 1:33 p.m. | #

I believe the long and short RATs have now switched ends on Central Line

Barry arnold | 13.12.21 - 2:29 p.m. | #

Thanks - I lived on Rectory Rd until I was 7 & used to play on the green & look at the buses stood or turning. I did a Dr Bike there a few years ago. My primary school was next door to Sellfridges.

I’ve often used that road as a short cut to Lea Bridge Rd on the bike, & recently on my little 125cc. Boring for most people maybe, but not for those of us familiar with it.

Toni | 13.12.21 - 3:28 p.m. | #

Another interesting one (aren't they all)

If you get as far as the B306 you will find another, probably better known, memorial to Mr Bolan.

By the way, I think you've spelt his first name wrong - he changed the last letter to a "C" when he changed his surname from Feld.

dg writes: You know I've spelt it wrong.
Fixed, thanks.

Timbo | 13.12.21 - 4:05 p.m. | #

Personally speaking I'm enjoying these B road reports so please continue with them.

Agent X | 13.12.21 - 4:30 p.m. | #

Loved the ghostsigns website and associated links, thanks.

Blue Witch | Homepage | 13.12.21 - 7:42 p.m. | #

Bit odd the way shoehorning changes the font.

Andrew S | 13.12.21 - 8:46 p.m. | #

I have for a long time wondered whether the round brick construction at 51°33'45.2"N, 0°04'16.6"W near the beginning of the B111 (but nearer the A10, sorry) is a vent for Hackney Brook or one for the High-level Sewer.

dg writes: sewer is thought most likely.

Bob L-S | 13.12.21 - 8:58 p.m. | #

My mother lived at the junction of Northwood Road and Narford Road for 15 years in the 1920s and 1930s. Her overriding memory, which brought her to tears, was the grief stricken widow who sung under the street light every Thursday evening. She had lost her husband in the Great War and paid tribute to him in the orthodox Jewish tradition.

Kenneth Morton | 14.12.21 - 9:10 a.m. | #

I wonder whether there is still a political ghost sign on the Narford Road wall of 106 Northwold Road.

Dave | 20.12.21 - 4:09 p.m. | #











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