[LMB] authors goofs that bug me

[Michael R N Dolbear]

> From: ANDREW BARTON <andrew.157barton at btinternet.com>
> Date: 02 October 2007 02:36

>   There's a similar error in the computer game 'Ravenhearst'. 
Ravenhearst Manor was supposedly built in England early in the last
century.  The style of the building is generally acceptable but the house
number is '7217' - impossible!

Not precisely impossible, just very very unlikely (local government can
legally assign or reassign house numbers and require them to be displayed ;
Town Improvement Clauses Act 1847 s65).

I know of no examples of 4 digit house numbers (of any date) in England but
didn't try to check when I worked for a mail order fullfillment business
and had access to the Post Office address database. I can however tell you
there is only one Air Balloon Road and only two Copenhagen Ways.

Little Egret