What do we know about the area we live in? In most people’s cases (including my own), ‘not much’ is a good answer. So let’s have a look (from the ‘Finchlinks’ viewpoint – i.e. Finchley north of the North Circular Road (A406): We’re all in the Finchley & Golders Green constituency and the local MP is [...]
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N2, N3, N11 and N12: Why??
Ever wondered why we got saddled with an odd assortment of London postcodes? Was it something alphabetical? I always assumed not because N1 is plainly Islington – a word that plainly doesn’t begin with an A, B or even a C. Turns out that I was wrong – Islington gets the NI because it’s the [...]
