Talk:London postal district/Archive 1

message: It is misleading to call the area covered by N,SE,SW,E,W & NW postcodes Inner London as Inner London is a defined term (the old LCC area) for example: In the East sector only E1, E2, E3, E6, E8 and E9 were within the LCC and are now in Inner London. MRSC 14:10, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Inner London?

message: I did a look up for "Greater London" on this site to get a difinitive list and the namess for the postcodes outside the London postal district but within Greater London. http://www.brainstorm.co.uk/uk_post_code_search.htm . MRSC 21:20, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Lookup

message: N19 is on the map twice. The correct one is the inner one. I think the other one should be N9. — 81.132.5.80 04:17, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: well-spotted! I've seen that image many times but hadn't noticed it. I've just downloaded it, made the edit and re-uploaded it. --Vamp:Willow 10:36, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  N19 on map twice 

message: Why is Paddington W2?
: Because W2 is erroneously listed as Paddington. W2 is actually a "Head District" with a District Sorting  Office (here, West). W1 is also a Head District, but is self-contained due to it´s central location and large amount of traffic. Each London Postal Area has a "Head District" with a District Sorting Office. (N1, E1, SW1, WC1, EC1, SE1, & W2).IsarSteve 00:13, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I seem to remember W1, WC1 and WC2 all being dealt with together at Rathbone Place. MRSC 07:17, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This (PDF) reveals that W1, W2 and SW11 are all head districts. W is subdivided into Western (W1 only) and Paddington (W2-14). SW forms Southwestern (SW1-15) and Battersea (SW11-20). MRSC • Talk 23:42, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What about WC1A and WC2B etc - do they have separate facilities or not?  Morwen - Talk 00:14, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  W2 anomaly 

message: I've managed to work out from an old map and descriptive gazetteers that the NE sector covered what is today E2,4,5,8,9,10,11,17,18 and the original E sector was what is now E1,3,6,7,12,13,14,15,16. I can't work out which areas where removed from the postal district when the sectors where merged. Anyone know? Above the Alexandra pub on Victoria Park Road there is a fine old street sign proudly showing NE if anyone is nearby with a camera, I keep forgetting to go there and take a snap. MRSC 07:14, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This maps reveals the full original extent of the postal district. Based on this, it looks like it was retracted at some point in every direction. MRSC • Talk 23:28, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NE 

message: This map if 1900  suggests the district did not originally cover Charlton and Woolwich. Anyone know anything about this? MRSC 20:12, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Charlton and Woolwich later additions 

message: which is no longer a contiguous management area within the Post Office.
This is a bit of an odd way to start an encyclopedia article, telling us what it is not. What is meant by that line? Perhaps it belongs further down and should be better explained? MRSC • Talk 10:09, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: intro

message: I spotted a map of the original area of the London postal district in the maps exhibition currently at the British Library.  It is described as a 12-mile circle from the main post office, and the map  approximates this (but it is shown with more kinks than a raw circle, possibly conforming with parish boundaries?).  this may or may not be worth checking into. Morwen - Talk 00:59, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Map of original district

message: From John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72): 
The General Post office stands in St. Martin's-le-Grand, near Cheapside, Newgate-street, and St. Paul's churchyard; occupies the site of an ancient college and church dedicated to St. Martin; and was built in 1825-9, after designs by Sir R.. Smirke. It measures 389 feet in length and 80 feet in width; is in the Ionic style, simple, but massive; has a hexastyle portico, copied from remains of two ancient temples; consists of granite in the basement, and of brick, faced with Portland stone, in the superstructure; and includes a central vestibule, or great hall, 80 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 53 feet high. A supplement to it, on ground in Newgate-street purchased for £3,000, was authorized by an act of 1865. The postoffice was kept, in 1635, at Sherbourne-lane; next at Dowgate; next at the Black Swan, Bishopsgate-street; next at the Black Pillars, Brydges-street, Covent-garden; next at what had been Sir Robert Viner's house, in Lombard-street; and was removed thence to the present building. 
Ten head-offices are now in the metropolis, as defined by a circle drawn on a radius of 12 miles from the General Post office; and they serve for ten sections in nearly the same manner as if these were ten towns, all at considerable distances from one another. The sections were marked off, and constituted, in 1856; they are all designated London, with the adjuncts of respectively E C, W C, N, N E, E, S E, S, S W, W, and N W; and they are shown in a map constructed for the purpose, but cannot be clearly delineated in words. 
The headoffice of the E C section is the general post office itself, with a branch in Lombard-street; of the W C section, is in High Holborn, with a branch at Charing-cross; of the N section, is in Essex-road, Islington; of the N E section, is in Church-street, Bethnal-Green; of the E section, is in Nassau-place, Commercial-road East; of the S E section, is in High-street, Southwark; of the S section, is in York-place, Lambeth; of the S W section, is in Buckingham-gate, Pimlico; of the W section, is in Vere-street; of the N W section, is in Eversholt-street, Camden-Town. Nearly 700 receiving-offices, the majority of them with money-order, savings-bank, and insurance and annuity apartments, are dispersed throughout the sections; postal-pillars and wall letter-boxes are proportiona1ly numerous; and, since 1859, no house in London has been more than ¼ of a mile distant from a moneyorder office, or more than &hy. of a mile from a receivingoffice or a postal letter-box. 
This article needs a bit of a rewrite. MRSC • Talk 08:41, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin of district