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Iām most disappointed that, not content with grinding the World to a halt for nine months and counting, COVID is now robbing us of the chance to learn about the northern stages of a road which has played a significant role in my life, albeit mostly the single carriageway bit in East Sussex. Virtually every journey of note that I took before moving to London started or ended on it - walks to Primary School, taxi commutes to Secondary, and setting off for a life away at College and then University. It is true that it ends, or perhaps starts, depending on your perspective, rather mundanely in a less interesting area of Hastings, but I have always wondered what happens at the other end. And there is plenty of interest inbetween, from the unusual layout of Chevening Interchange, where it leaves the M25, and the abandonment of its original footings above Sevenoaks Weald to the de-dualling of a section on the Kent - East Sussex border and plans to install a heritage railway level crossing on a village bypass in Robertsbridge. But, I suppose, if I wanted to read a blog about my local trunk road I should have written it myself instead of expecting DG to do it...
Robert | 03.01.21 - 8:37 a.m. | #
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My son owns the model railway shop on Seaside. I'm sure some of your readers would like to hear about that :-) It is indeed a couple of streets back from the front, but makes for an enviable address.
Pettiest of petty points - vingt-et-un, je crois.
Sarah | Homepage | 03.01.21 - 8:59 a.m. | #
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Good morning DG,how are your injuries now,after your flying visit to Upper Street? Or should it be renamed Upsadaisy Street?
By the way,did you report it to the local council to stop anyone else suffering the same fate? Our council are quite good at sorting these things out quickly. It's probably cheaper than being sued by any injured person.š
Jo W | 03.01.21 - 10:13 a.m. | #
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Please Sir! Whilst it's adjacent to Winchmore Hill, I don't believe Edmonton Cemetery is in N21.
dg writes: Never trust Google's postcode maps. Updated, thanks.
Frank F | 03.01.21 - 10:33 a.m. | #
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I always thought following the original, pre-dualled routes of A roads would be quite interesting. (Also, for next year the A22 also goes to the South Coast and is less developedalthough it ends in Purley. According to legend at our school, it waa designed by a German in the 1930s so that bombers could follow it to London. I can't find any evidence to back that up). Anyway. Happy New Year, and if you're still stuck to walking distance from your home for a while yet - how many English counties can you visit within walking distance? (eg Surrey Docks, Old Kent Road etc)
Dan | Homepage | 03.01.21 - 11:02 a.m. | #
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What is "fascinatingly obtuse" about Winchmore Hill - its geometry or its people?
Ian | 03.01.21 - 11:44 a.m. | #
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When our son went to Brighton Uni. (Eastbourne Campus) in the late 90s, he lived in Old Town.
When we visited him before the Polegate Bypass was built, we regularly drove along the A2021.
As far as I am aware, the most interesting fact about the road is that when the new housing estate was being built to the south of the roundabouts near the hospital, a cache of 80 wartime grenades was discovered! (See here which mentions the A2021 by name.)
John Simmons | 03.01.21 - 1:44 p.m. | #
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You said nothing about the B2021 though. Should anyone in Tonbridge be watching out for you?
Sprout Eater | 03.01.21 - 3:28 p.m. | #
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Was E19 ever used?
Brisket de la Francoise | 03.01.21 - 5:07 p.m. | #
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*buys shares in Wood Green for next year*
Richard | 03.01.21 - 7:49 p.m. | #
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