[LMB] authors goofs that bug me

[Doctor Nightfall]

> From: little.egret at mrdolbear.freeserve.co.uk
> To: lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk
> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:35:38 +0100
> Subject: Re: [LMB] authors goofs that bug me
>
>
>> From: ANDREW BARTON 
>> 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.

I live at 1009, Shields Road. And I'm barely halfway along it. I quite agree that 7217 is wildly improbable, but it *is* potentially on this road; if they didn't decide to change the numbering system about a hundred houses further on due to a Borough Change.

There is, also, thanks to a failure of imagination by council planners, a lack of initiative on the part of the A-Z Maps group, and great big ones on the part of some wag, a Police Station in Britain that is now officially No. 1, Letsby Avenue.

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