On 21/11/2020 11:56, T i m wrote:
On 21 Nov 2020 11:27:48 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:

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I knew someone who lived in Hogs' Turd Lane.

My favourite is "Avenue". Just that.

Oooerr.

A narrow street between tall houses.

You get strange ones where there is something like 'Somewhere Place',
a row of houses that sit on an existing road with the other houses
continuing normally either side of it.

Main road number 2, 4, 6 , 8 Something Place, 10, 12, 14 etc.

When you look back you find there was a building there that occupied
the same space as the 'Place' houses but accessed from a different
direction, hence why there wasn't a missing number from the Main Road
sequence.

In the same way they might put a block of flats where there was
previously a single house and that might become 'Grove house, 105 High
street' and each flat just numbered accordingly. An address then being
Flat 4, Grove House, 105 High Street' or Flat 4, 105 High Street' etc.

I wonder what the limits on adding a letter suffix when a house is
turned into sub dwellings, Like what was '23 The Road' now 21a and 21b
The Road? I mean, anyone ever seen it go past b?

Computerised address entry often can't cope with flat numbers which are
duplicated in a nearby block if they are the same postcode. And even if
they aren't letters can be misdelivered.

Then the recipient "helpfully" puts, "Not known at this address," and
the sender thinks you don't live at the stated address any more.

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Max Demian