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GoFast
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 Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:57 am Post subject: Where has Kings Road London SW (Chelsea) gone? |
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Hi
Tried to navigateb to this location - does not exist according to the Tom people......
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lbendlin
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:59 am Post subject: |
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Can you find it by browsing the map? Maybe they spell it differently
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sgould
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:26 am Post subject: |
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| Try spelling it with an apostrophe. "King's Road" |
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BanziBarn
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 10:40 am Post subject: |
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I had the same problem! Is the ' which is the problem  |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:35 am Post subject: |
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| BanziBarn wrote: | | I had the same problem! Is the ' which is the problem |
i wouldn't say it's a problem,,, more our English language and spelling. Sometimes even I get confused |
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BanziBarn
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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This is true!
Although there are some roads called 'Kings Road' so its not an incorrect spelling as such. |
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young-goat
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| Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:16 am Post subject: |
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Instead of searching for it under LONDON search under CHELSEA then search for the street name by alphabetical key on the keyboard
Same applies to anything it doesn't find where you expect it to be, vary the search area to somewhere else it might be. |
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DennisN
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| Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:07 am Post subject: |
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That's if you know of a "somewhere else" that would be useful! Consider High Street, Bristol, then think of how many local areas there might be that you've never heard of 
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mcollison
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| Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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Could someone who lives in the King's Road Chelsea please post their postcode! 
Chelsea stadium is SW6 1HS [Fulham road] runs parallel (Sort of) |
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Andy_P
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Tim Buxton
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| Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| mcollison wrote: | Could someone who lives in the King's Road Chelsea please post their postcode!
Chelsea stadium is SW6 1HS [Fulham road] runs parallel (Sort of) |
Chelsea Stadium? CHELSEA STADIUM? I think you are speaking of the hallowed turf known as Stamford Bridge, Sir (or Madam).
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Skippy
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| Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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| BanziBarn wrote: | | Although there are some roads called 'Kings Road' so its not an incorrect spelling as such. |
You had better tell the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the Royal Mail then!
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| Tim Buxton wrote: | | mcollison wrote: | Could someone who lives in the King's Road Chelsea please post their postcode!
Chelsea stadium is SW6 1HS [Fulham road] runs parallel (Sort of) |
Chelsea Stadium? CHELSEA STADIUM? I think you are speaking of the hallowed turf known as Stamford Bridge, Sir (or Madam). |
Nope, I think he meant Chelsea football club's football pitch.
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Tim Buxton
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| Skippy wrote: | You had better tell the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the Royal Mail then!
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Interestingly, in London the park is known as St. James's Park, Newcastle United's football ground is spelt St. James' Park. 
Dennis, the pitch is called the pitch; Stamford Bridge is where Chelsea Football Club play football.
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Andy_P
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I grew up near a road called St James's Drive and always thought it was wrong. But I read somewhere (might have been the Lynne Truss book) that BOTH are equally right, but only for names of saints and kings (or something!) 
Wikipaedia says:
| Quote: | Possessives in geographic names
United States place names generally do not use the possessive apostrophe. The United States Board on Geographic Names, which has responsibility for formal naming of municipalities and geographic features, has deprecated the use of possessive apostrophes since 1890. Only five names of natural features in the U.S. are officially spelled with a genitive apostrophe (one example being Martha's Vineyard). On the other hand, Britain has Bishop's Stortford, Bishop's Castle and King's Lynn (but St Albans, St Andrews and St Helens) and, while Newcastle United play at St James' Park, and Exeter City at St James Park, London has a St James's Park (this whole area of London is named after St James's Church, Piccadilly). The special circumstances of the latter case may be this: the customary pronunciation of this place name is reflected in the addition of an extra -s; since usage is firmly against a doubling of the final -s without an apostrophe, this place name has an apostrophe. This could be regarded as an example of a double genitive: it refers to the park of the church of St James. None of this detracts from the fact that omission of the apostrophe in geographical names is becoming a clear standard in most English-speaking countries, including Australia. Practice in Britain and Canada is not so uniform. |
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