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How does one determine at which end a road starts, and consequently its numbering scheme? IE: why does the b106 start in muswell hill and not at the North circular?

dg writes: "The first digit in the number of any road should be the number of the furthest-anticlockwise zone entered by that road."

Ian | 28.11.21 - 7:15 a.m. | #

A road I've known and driven most of my life. The Sunshine Garden Centre was originally an open air swimming pool - the Durnsford Road Lido. The original entrance was retained on change of use.

Frank F | 28.11.21 - 7:32 a.m. | #

Part of bus route 175 in Havering follows part of the B175.

Until recent changes, bus route 4 followed a short part of the A4

Timbo | 28.11.21 - 8:11 a.m. | #

My first home as a child was in Albert Road (on the hived off section), and my primary school was Rhodes Avenue. Exactly the same could be said by my mother (if she were alive to say it). Your description is lovely, and most of it would have applied 70+ years ago. Only the methodist church and the swimming pool have changed. My first two-wheeler bike ride was diagonally across the first piece of "the rec" as it was always called. We used to walk to "the tunnel" to watch the trains. Some of which were hauled by "a streak" (streamlined loco) which I now know should have been called A4 Pacific. I could go on at length, but I think I'd better leave it there. Thank you for being so kind to Alexandra Park.

Malcolm of Kent | 28.11.21 - 8:24 a.m. | #

Whatever you saw in the distance at Ponders End could not have been the four 1960s tower blocks as they no longer exist. The replacements are considerably lower and less brutal.

Martin | 28.11.21 - 10:05 a.m. | #

I've walked down some of that road, but not all of it, and was going to visit those gardens above the ECML last week, but never did...

Mikey C | 28.11.21 - 10:54 a.m. | #

A road I know well, thanks.

Caroline | 28.11.21 - 10:58 a.m. | #

I was going to say what a lovely clear blue sky and then I saw the photo of the railway!

John Simmons | 28.11.21 - 1:08 p.m. | #

"Elsewhere calling your beauty salon Purity by Beatrice might raise eyebrows, but here it merely lifts them."

Classic! It's just the sort of pithy prose I come here for!!

Cornish Cockney | 28.11.21 - 1:42 p.m. | #

Thank you for the info about this road that I thought I knew well. It's interesting that the park used to extend as far as this.

Bob L-S | 28.11.21 - 3:12 p.m. | #

"The first digit in the number of any road should be the number of the furthest-anticlockwise zone entered by that road."

Interesting, but not quite what I was wondering. The 106, for example, stays in zone 1, but why does it "start" at Muswell Hill? Is it because it is closer to London?

dg points at the word "anticlockwise"

Ian | 29.11.21 - 8:34 a.m. | #

Now that routes 4 and 21 have been truncated, and the A21 diverted, the lowest road number with a namesake London bus route following it seems to be the A123 between Ilford and Gants Hill

Timbo | 29.11.21 - 10:08 a.m. | #











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