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[ladymuck]

I had a hankering for eggy bread, proper version not that over sweet French toast muck. So, that's what I made. I realised too late that I could have clogged up a few more arteries by turning it into a eggy bread bacon sandwich. Probably for the best that I didn't do it.

[jamesbrown]

Yes, I thought that was odd when we moved there in 1971 - Milton Keynes had barely even been started by then, still consisting mostly of a bunch of villages and a few very small towns

There's probably a vaguely interesting story behind it. I think postcodes were rolled out nationally in the early 70s.

[eek]

The rot set in when they got rid of exchange names, like MUS for Bloomsbury, or WHI(tehall) 1212 for Scotland Yard

Current project is with a telecom firm. When you register a number nowadays you also need to provide the location so you can be using a London number in Glasgow (say). What I suspect would happen is that you would get routed to London's emergency centres who then has to transfer the details to Glasgow

[eek]

Current project is with a telecom firm. When you register a number nowadays you also need to provide the location so you can be using a London number in Glasgow (say). What I suspect would happen is that you would get routed to London's emergency centres who then has to transfer the details to Glasgow

My conclusion was always use your mobile when calling 999 as that uses the mast to work out where to route the call.

[eek]

Yes, I thought that was odd when we moved there in 1971 - Milton Keynes had barely even been started by then, still consisting mostly of a bunch of villages and a few very small towns

The initial (area) bit of a post code determined the major postal centre the post was sent to - so Bedford post would be centrally sent to Milton Keynes from where it was sent to the local sorting offices.

Nowadays a number of those centres have been merged, so the central hub for the North East is now a single one on Tyneside where previously there were ones in Boro (TS), Darlo (DL), Durham (DH), Sunderland (SR) and Newcastle (NE).

[ladymuck]

Current project is with a telecom firm. When you register a number nowadays you also need to provide the location so you can be using a London number in Glasgow (say). What I suspect would happen is that you would get routed to London's emergency centres who then has to transfer the details to Glasgow

When I had my BT digital line, they regularly nagged for me to make sure the registered address was up to date.

Felt rather pointless as I could install the Cloud Voice app on my phone and use that to call from anywhere...

[NickFitz]

The initial (area) bit of a post code determined the major postal centre the post was sent to - so Bedford post would be centrally sent to Milton Keynes from where it was sent to the local sorting offices.

Nowadays a number of those centres have been merged, so the central hub for the North East is now a single one on Tyneside where previously there were ones in Boro (TS), Darlo (DL), Durham (DH), Sunderland (SR) and Newcastle (NE).

That's the theory but even by 1979, post for Bedford was being routed directly there. I know because I worked the Christmas post that year and spent my afternoons in a warm hut on the station platform, popping out once an hour to load or unload mailbags from the trains on the Midland mainline

There's probably a hub over in MK now though.

[NickFitz]

Tea: pork cutlet with chips and beans. Very nice too

[ladymuck]

Lots of The Repair Shop has been watched this evening. And the latest Only Connect.

[ladymuck]

I have had to report two maintenance issues to my landlady in recent weeks: overflowing guttering and the growing crack in the garden wall.

The former is going to be resolved tomorrow morning, 9.30 am.