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No, “West Wimbledon” is the joke name made up by estate agents because Raynes Park used to be very downmarket compared to the big W just up the road.
We used to write it as a joke on post/mail to each other. I went back recently for a look around my old stomping ground and it’s much nicer now than I remember it being. |
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Almost a cat post ...
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Postcodes are ordered alphabetically not colocated hence SW20 is West Wimbledon and so last of the SWs numerically
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As postal district numbers were generally allocated alphabetically, you would expect SW20 to come after Wimbledon (SW19) in the alphabet - which neither Raynes Park nor West Wimbledon do.
dg writes: SW1-SW19 were allocated in 1917. SW20 was added in 1920. |
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Yay!! Finally a picture of a cat!
(Well, if you click the link that is!!) |
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We lived on Edna Road until 3 years back and that cat was continually coming in and out of half the houses on the street, including ours. It's possibly the most friendly cat I've ever seen, but must have given the owners nightmares given how far and wide it strayed.
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I love how, when I write a post about a lost cat in a suburban sidestreet, a reader is able to chip in and say 'oh yes, that cat...'.
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The rather brilliant aerial photo suggests a walled medieval city rather than a south-west London suburb. I guess a few of the residents work for the modern Medici.
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My 190x house didn't gain a bathroom until 1977, according to the deeds. Inevitably each house in the terrace has done it differently, some adding one downstairs at the back, others converting half a bedroom, and others still going for a whole bedroom, replacing it with a loft conversion.
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SW20 - I live here but I'm quite a way from Raynes Park so it's hard to describe so I just use the postcode. Some people do posh it up and say West Wimbledon but it's way west. It's because it's not SW19 which is posher.
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Removal of a historic window is not always thoughtless. It may have been accidentally broken, perhaps by a wayward stepladder, and replacement as-was could have been unaffordable and/or not covered by insurance. It's still a shame, though.
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Looking back, it's remarkable that when they wanted to built lots of houses, they built lots of houses. Streets and streets of them. And most of them are still standing and happily lived in over 100 years later.
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RE Chatsworth avenue, I bet they are serpents, as the Devonshire family has a knotted serpent as a logo, and you se the serpent everywhere at Chatsworth and in the nearby area marking family property.
To my mind it's very slytherin... |
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I used to work in Amity Grove SW20 and on fine mornings would walk from Wimbledon Chase, varying my route with a fresh Apostle each day.
My understanding is that West Wimbledon is north of the railway, with Raynes Park being 'the other side of the tracks'. |
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Brief daily diary entries during World War II by a man who lived in Chestnut Road can be found at myunclefred.blogspot.com.
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