[LMB] authors goofs that bug me

[Michael R N Dolbear]

> From: Doctor Nightfall <musko_no_kaji at hotmail.com>
> Date: 03 October 2007 00:29
> 
> > From: little.egret at mrdolbear.freeserve.co.uk
> >> From: ANDREW BARTON 
> >
> >> 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.

Thanks, and that is why it is very rare - there was always a road name
change or council change before the numbers got high. 
 
> 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.

That I did check and was unable to find. I thus think it is an Urban
Legend.

Anyone who thinks it real, quote the postcode.

Little Egret