The fictional London postcode of E20 used in Eastenders is to be used for real for the Olympic development around Stratford.
Does anyone know how the existing London postcodes were allocated?
Most people think it's geographical, but the consecutive numbers are not next to each other on the map.
The answer is the alphabet, so:
E1: Aldgate
E2: Bethnal Green
E3: Bow
E4: Chingford
E5: Clapton
E6: East Ham
E7: Forest Gate
E8: Hackney
E9: Homerton
E10: Leyton
E11: Leytonstone
E12: Manor Park
E13: Plastow
E14: Poplar
E15: Statford
E16: Victoria Dock
E17: Walthamstow
E18: Woodford
The same applies to the other London postcodes W, SE, N, etc.
Sequences are sometimes confused by new developments, in SE particularly, and now in E.
There are also some 'post office' names that most people would not use.
For example, E16 Victoria Dock - most would know that as Canning Town.
N1 is another one, ask any estate agent, N1 is Islington, but in postie speak, it's Angel.
www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5h9DflYhbHvP5LSITVjBw8xVlsnAw?docId=B6966541300460978A00
Fascinating, eh?
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>> N1 is another one, ask any estate agent, N1 is Islington, but in postie speak, it's Angel.
Is the area not named after an old coaching inn called the Angel in Islington? Or is that Monopoly?
Last edited by: rtj70 on Fri 18 Mar 11 at 21:25
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Canning Town is recognised locally as being much further North than the Victoria docks.
The area around the Victoria dock was known locally as Silvertown and Custom House.
But hey, Victoria dock sounds nicer.
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The West End - W1 - is a special case, and I'm not sure what its name is.
W2 is Bayswater, which also doesn't fit, but:
W3: Acton
W4: Chiswick
W5: Ealing
W6: Hammersmith
W7: Hanwell
W8: Kensington
W9: Maida Vale
W10: North Kensington
W11: Notting Hill
W12: Shepherd's Bush
W13: West Ealing
W14: West Kensington
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SW1A 1AA
Buck House.
SW1A 0AA
Palace of Westminster.
SW1A 2AA
No 10 Downing St
Last edited by: Zero on Fri 18 Mar 11 at 21:47
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At Christmas the Post Office accepts and replies to stamped letters addressed to Father Christmas, North Pole, SAN TA1.
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The SWs run from one to 10, and then start again.
Frustratingly, SW11 and 12 don't quite work, because Battersea is after Balham in the alphabet.
I have a vague recollection of a 'postie name' for Battersea, maybe Albert Bridge, but I can't bring it fully to mind.
SW19 and 20 are two more that don't quite fit, but as I said, it's alphabetically very close, but not perfect.
SW1: Belgravia
SW2: Brixton
SW3: Chelsea
SW4: Clapham
SW5: Earls Court
SW6: Fulham
SW7: Knightsbridge
SW8: Nine Elms
SW9: Stockwell
SW10: West Brompton
SW11: Battersea
SW12: Balham
SW13: Barnes
SW14: East Sheen
SW15: Putney
SW16: Streatham
SW17: Tooting
SW18: Wandsworth
SW19: Wimbledon
SW20: West Wimbledon
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Well, thanks for all that ,Iffers.
I have committed it all to memory and will take it to the grave with me. ( An option which has become more attractive as I read on )
Now, some large cities don't even have their own postcode....Salford, for instance has M codes . Salford city centre is M3, as is the adjoining bit of Manchester.
A bit sad, really, for a city chartered as such some 500 yrs before it's neighbour.
It hasn't got a city centre either !
Now, who would like me to go through all the Manchester postcodes ( I can throw in the local phone codes as a bonus )....I won't be offended if no-one speaks up !
As an aside, both Manchester and Liverpool have areas called Islington.. Any ideas on the origin of the name ?
Ted
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Manchester is a bit strange, there is logic in M19 - M23 areas as they are all connecting but then you M20's in a parts of Salford too a completely different area.
Stockport is logical but the SK post code is used in a too wide area, e.g Buxton and Macclesfield are both SK.
My grandparents live in North Lincs and they have a Doncaster postcode despite Doncaster being miles away.
Last edited by: RattleandSmoke on Fri 18 Mar 11 at 23:15
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Much of it depends on which sorting office delivers to particular areas.
Where I live, many Lancashire towns and villages have their mail sorted and delivered through the Liverpool sorting office, whereas other towns such as mine come under Preston.
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>> live in North Lincs and they have a Doncaster postcode
Skeggy (in South Lincs) has a Peterborough postcode.
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When you have tsken off your anoraks, please tell me what the strange locomotive pulling the 14:23 from Paddington to wherever was?
Thanks.
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The engine driver was called Smith.
Why?
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Cliff, I have more important things to bother with in life than postcodes.
as long as the theiving scum at the postoffice actually deliver my letters, that is as far as it goes for me.
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>> When you have tsken off your anoraks, please tell me what the strange locomotive pulling
>> the 14:23 from Paddington to wherever was?
What day?
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You didn't realise postcodes were so interesting - rtj70
