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You could always walk the second half next year, on account of there being no a2024. (It was in Chichester, but got declassified in the 1960s)
Tom | 01.01.23 - 7:39 a.m. | #
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There is a B2024.
Happy New Year.
Still Anon | 01.01.23 - 8:32 a.m. | #
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I’ve walked part of that myself, though I didn’t know it was the A2023 at th time.
Barry | 01.01.23 - 9:30 a.m. | #
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A seldom-seen but much-loved (by me) manicule, pointing the way into a fresh new year.
Frank F | 01.01.23 - 10:05 a.m. | #
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I lived on the former A2024 for many years. Used to walk part of it every day to get to school.
graybo | Homepage | 01.01.23 - 10:09 a.m. | #
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There is a B2023 as well.
probably not worth a special trip to Tunbridge Wells.
timbo | 01.01.23 - 10:39 a.m. | #
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For a time, I lived about 250 yards from the B2023.
graybo | Homepage | 01.01.23 - 10:43 a.m. | #
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It's Aldrington Halt. Not as grand as a station.
bDarren | 01.01.23 - 11:18 a.m. | #
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Happy (A)2023!
Cornish Cockney | 01.01.23 - 11:20 a.m. | #
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Always something new to learn. For me today, it's the word "manicule".
Malcolm of Kent | 01.01.23 - 11:33 a.m. | #
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Happy New Year DG and thanks for your wonderful blogging - long may it continue!
Martin | 01.01.23 - 12:00 p.m. | #
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Happy 2023 all!
Recognised all those places because that’s the way we drove to the bowls greens there.
We still love the sedateness of Hove Actually, we start there and wander the seafront along to Brighton for the evening, stopping for refreshments on the way., of course. 😉
Jo W | 01.01.23 - 12:25 p.m. | #
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A very road indeed, DG. My partner’s mother works in the boutique next to The Ginger Pig and I can confirm that Ms Ball is indeed a customer at both.
LordR | 01.01.23 - 12:25 p.m. | #
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This is so much my part of the world that I started my run this morning halfway down this street. There is a sign which has the A2023 designation - it's about 200m from the northern end of the road on King George VI Avenue heading southbound. see here
Jamesthegill | 01.01.23 - 12:28 p.m. | #
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This blog made me realise I lived for a year just 200yds from the A2023 off Portland Road. This was in my first year at university in 1970/71.
Happy New Year dg, and all his readers.
MikeK | 01.01.23 - 2:37 p.m. | #
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I love it when a seemingly obscure road hits the reader jackpot.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.01.23 - 2:37 p.m. | #
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Yes, that street sign with the pointing finger is certainly magnificent! I suspect that ceramic signs like these were made in Stoke-on-Trent, but have not been able to confirm these by Googling.
cau1khead | 01.01.23 - 2:51 p.m. | #
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Best wishes for 2023 to DG and all.
The Brighton Engineerium was a wonderful place for those fascinated by steam-age machines. I stumbled across it once and had a lovely long chat with a chap who I reckon on reflection was probably Jonathan Minns, the driving force behind it. It is very sad that it closed.
A quote on the page you link to, from his son, is touching " ... don’t feel too sad for dad because of what the Engineerium is today. He lived an exceptional life, he lived it very much on his own terms and in doing so managed to contribute hugely to industrial heritage both in the UK and across the world."
Tunnel Bore | 01.01.23 - 5:12 p.m. | #
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My father worked at the Engineerium for many years - I think he might actually have been employed to do the book-keeping, but stoked the boilers for fun - and when he retired from there in his seventies they presented him with a beautiful brass and copper model locomotove which I still have. He loaned the Engineerium his father's (my grandfather's) massive framed colour lithograph union certificate and after they closed I had to go and snatch it back before they auctioned off all the contents. I spent many happy and fascinating childhood hours there honing my fascination for industrial archaeology.
Sarah | Homepage | 01.01.23 - 6:48 p.m. | #
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