Strange house numbers

[Gramaisc]

I've just see this on the BBC ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7778886.stm ) and wonder if there are any similar situations around here. I've always found the Edison Road area particularly confusing. Any more examples?

 

[Toble]

Exeter Street gets a bit strange near the top end, but the best round here is probably Greensome Lane.
The even number side run to about 50 normally, then 70,71,72...80, then 101,100,500,501,400,401. or something like that.

 

[MISS T]

We're on Oxford Gardens and there are missing numbers, can't think which off hand but I presume where the Lotus factory houses are is where the gap appears, only noticed when asked by the postie.

 

[Slainte]

Stafford generally isn't to bad for streets and running concurrent numbers, I work in many different estates around the country and some are evil can spend a fair bit of time just searching for the right proeprty!!! People, please make it easier for fools like me to find your house, stick a number on your door!!

 

[wmrcomputers]

I know that faraday road can be a flaming nightmare!! It consists of several rows of houses at all kinds of angles to eachother, with a road that runs to the front of some houses and the backs of others.... Christ knows where the door numbers start and end for that one.

Also, if my memory serves me correctly, I think there's a couple of houses on Conway Road up Doxey that don't quite slot in where they should, right up the far end (furthest from town)

Prospect road always makes me wonder too. It only has odd (i think) numbers and no evens! Why did they not make the numbers run in sequence? Fair enough I suppose there's always a chance that the alotments could have one day been built on, but surely if that ever happened they could have just continued the numbers on the other side.

Oo, oo... (i'm gettin carried away now)... then there's corporation street.. 1,2,3,4.... etc, then 1a, 2a, 3a etc. Hence 8a is nowhere near number 8.

My head hurts now. Please can I stop thinking too hard?? lol

 

[Gramaisc]

When I said Edison Road I really meant the whole of the Coton Fields maze. Edison Road, Bell Close and Lister Road are almost interwoven, at least Faraday Road is separate. There is also the strange detached part of Henry Street successfully hidden in there. It does seem unnecessarily complicated. The whole point of having an address is that other people can find it.

 

[Slainte]

Theres an area in Stone, which is a nightmare as there's back to back houses, street names that suddenly cease to exist then you go round the corner and it suddenly appears!!!

 

[Wormella]

When I said Edison Road I really meant the whole of the Coton Fields maze. Edison Road, Bell Close and Lister Road are almost interwoven, at least Faraday Road is separate. There is also the strange detached part of Henry Street successfully hidden in there. It does seem unnecessarily complicated. The whole point of having an address is that other people can find it.

I walkthrough that area a lot and atleast once a week someone asked me the directions to a house and I can't help them. I always wonder if they find them in the end.

 

[Gramaisc]

When I said Edison Road I really meant the whole of the Coton Fields maze. Edison Road, Bell Close and Lister Road are almost interwoven, at least Faraday Road is separate. There is also the strange detached part of Henry Street successfully hidden in there. It does seem unnecessarily complicated. The whole point of having an address is that other people can find it.

I walkthrough that area a lot and atleast once a week someone asked me the directions to a house and I can't help them. I always wonder if they find them in the end.

I get asked about once a week or so as well and I'm always left with the feeling that people don't believe me when I say I don't know. They give me a look like they think I'm just being awkward.

 

[ToriRat]

I think on Oxford gardens the issue is that at sum point after the edwardian block was built, one side was knocked down to build a fancy shoe factory.... If phots can be found of it after the houses were first built I think you would see housing on both sides.....but i could be wrong as this is just my theory

 

[Gramaisc]

I have a feeling that the houses on the Lotus side of Oxford Gardens were never there, between Freemen street and Henry Street, but I don't really know. ( Does anybody know better? ) The stretch from Freemen Street to Charnley Road seems to have been built at around the same time as the factory. There's a very nice shot here - http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?theme=487&originator=%2Fengine%2Ftheme%2Fdefault%2Easp&page=&records=&direction=&pointer=76&text=0&resource=6270
showing the very impressive allotments where Coton Fields estate is now.

 

[Goldilox]

Am I the only person for whom the numbers on Oxford Gardens have always made sense? - Odds on one side, evens on the other and where the big gap is, there's a gap in the (even) numbers. It never seemed that complicated to me. i suppose if you're a postman holding a letter misaddressed to 114 it's a bit frustrating, but it still seems perfectly logical.

 

[Gramaisc]

I think it's quite reasonable to leave a gap in the numbers on one side so that opposite houses come back into numerical similarity after the gap. It happens on Crab Lane as well, if I'm not mistaken.

There are streets in Stafford ( e.g. Victoria Terrace, I believe ) where the numbers run down one side and then back up the other. Again, reasonable when you've spotted it.

The problem really comes with the "shotgun" system as used on Coton Fields. Does anybody know if there really is an underlying pattern there that I can't see?

 

[Wormella]

I have a feeling that the houses on the Lotus side of Oxford Gardens were never there, between Freemen street and Henry Street, but I don't really know. ( Does anybody know better? ) The stretch from Freemen Street to Charnley Road seems to have been built at around the same time as the factory. There's a very nice shot here - http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?theme=487&originator=%2Fengine%2Ftheme%2Fdefault%2Easp&page=&records=&direction=&pointer=76&text=0&resource=6270
showing the very impressive allotments where Coton Fields estate is now.

This picture and write up back up that theory.

As for Coton fields, if you look on Google Maps you can see a pattern, sort of.

 

[Toble]

People, please make it easier for fools like me to find your house, stick a number on your door!!

Preferably in six foot high neon.

And remember this for christmas: if you book a taxi in the middle of the night, bloody well look out for it as we don't go door knocking at 3am.

 

[Gramaisc]

if you book a taxi in the middle of the night, bloody well look out for it as we don't go door knocking at 3am.

There's a seasonal proverb that I've never heard before.

I wonder how much trouble we would be in if we painted the number of the nearest house on each lamp-post? It would make it much easier to guess the right house when driving in an unfamiliar street. I used to have a speed camera sign on the one outside here, but they had to take it down as there are no speed cameras on this road. It was a very handy landmark.

 

[Lucy]

Rising Brook's a bit weird, because the gap past West Way doesn't equate to a gap in the numbers, my parents live in the 180s yet the 170s are about 2 miles away. I know live on Co-operative Street and our numbers run up one side and down the other, so I live in the 100s, but across the road are the 10s.

 

[Gramaisc]

Rising Brook's a bit weird.

A truly profound observation - I concur.

 

[Lucy]

Damn!

 

[The Stafford Beast]

Behind the Apollo cinema there are two number 1s & 2s in Friar's Walk. One set belongs to a cottage behind the cinema, and the other set runs consecutively from the Friar's Terrace end of the street.