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I trust you are going to enlighten us on the circumnavigating goat in a later series - Travelling animals of the world hteir lives and times
Peewit | Homepage | 05.12.10 - 8:41 a.m. | #
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As Romford thinks it is still in Essex likewise Kingston which thinks it is still Surrey. Even has it open weekend on the Heritage Weekend and not the London Weekend. Of course the residence of both towns enjoy the London services like regular public transport.
Probably an interesting book but surely a minority market.
John | 05.12.10 - 8:53 a.m. | #
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I live a couple of miles to the west of Romford and the penultimate line of my address definitely says 'Essex', so you can see how the people there might be a bit confused...
There are plenty of transplanted East End types here - my parents were from Stepney and Shadwell and I'm sure it's mainly their generation or people buying Christmas gifts for them that they were aiming at - but growing up down this way I can't say I ever felt as if I was in London. It was too distant, somewhere you went for a day out rather than something you actually part of.
Matt | Homepage | 05.12.10 - 9:43 a.m. | #
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Been there, and you're right, it's the hard part. I bet she appreciated your coming over and asking questions, not to mention buying the book.
But when will you be sitting behind your own pile of copies of 'Diamond Geezer's London Miscellany'? That's what we want to know...
disgruntled | Homepage | 05.12.10 - 11:01 a.m. | #
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Matt, I bet the last line of your address isn't Essex according to Royal Mail. They removed counties years ago as too controversial and confusing and, for them, irrelevant.
Pedantic of Purley | 05.12.10 - 12:09 p.m. | #
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Bring em back!
http://www.abcounties.co.uk/
Mind you, I was brought up believing I lived in Surrey (Thornton Heath?) and was born in Kent - but my birth certificate very clearly says London Borough of Bromley so I lay claim to be a Londoner, just.
Sarah | Homepage | 05.12.10 - 2:49 p.m. | #
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John, sarfwest London goes as far as Raynes Park (S.W.20). Kingston does not have a London post Code (it's KTn) - altho', as Matt says, it don't have a last line address of Surrey. Kingston is over half an hour train journey away from London.
parktown | 05.12.10 - 2:53 p.m. | #
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'London' has one meaning in local government terms and another in postal terms. This has always been the case (well, for as long as divisions of this kind have existed at all); the London postal district was never the same as any local government area. These arguments about whether a place really is, or is not, in London, are therefore a bit pointless.
Andrew | 05.12.10 - 3:02 p.m. | #
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And let's not even get started on Middlesex.
Polkatronixx | 05.12.10 - 3:27 p.m. | #
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Won't Dee be really excited when she reads this (every author, particularly the minor/new ones, Googles their own name, of course) and finds she met and spoke to the great Diamond Geezer? And that he journeyed all the way to Romford to buy one of her signed books? :)
Blue Witch | Homepage | 05.12.10 - 4:10 p.m. | #
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For all we know, dg's copy of the book is inscribed 'to Diamond Geezer' :)
(the circumnavigating goat has piqued my interest too.. might need to get myself a copy)
martin | Homepage | 05.12.10 - 4:49 p.m. | #
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As an amateur genealogist, I'm solidly entrenched in pre-1889 county boundaries, with London being the only exception. I follow the 1889-1965 LCC borders there!! It's ok until I have to post a letter to say Liverpool, Birmingham or Bristol and don't for the life of me know what the modern county is!
Might look into that book. Does it cover Shoreditch/Hoxton?
CornishCockney | 05.12.10 - 5:24 p.m. | #
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You ought to write a customer review for Amazon. The one already there is not enough to make me want to buy it.
CornishCockney | 05.12.10 - 5:30 p.m. | #
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martin: surely 'From dg to dg'.
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Gordon | 06.12.10 - 2:07 a.m. | #
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For all we know, Dee G. and DG are one and the same. Sure he's been pretending to be a 40-something bloke all this time but that's the internet for you...
disgruntled | Homepage | 06.12.10 - 9:23 a.m. | #
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I can definitely confirm that DG is DG, and male, and that he definitely wouldn't have de-enigmatised himself to Dee G, female, with sprog.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 06.12.10 - 9:48 a.m. | #
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Of course Romford's in Essex. My Christmas post says so. London is where you go 'up' to, in the train. It's over 30 minutes away fer 'eaven's sake.
Herb of Romford | 06.12.10 - 11:15 a.m. | #
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Despite Kingston having been part of Greater London for 45 years, Surrey County Council's offices are still right there in Kingston town centre.
They may have taken Kingston out of Surrey, but they haven't taken Surrey out of Kingston!
Timbo | 06.12.10 - 3:59 p.m. | #
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