[baldeagle]

About 18 months ago, I had occasion to visit Ellesmere Port, in Cheshire.

My visit was nothing to do with Window Cleaning as it happens, but arriving early I visited a small Cafe to have a cuppa and while away about 45 minutes.

I noticed that the houses opposite were numbered in even increments, nothing unusual in that.... except that the street numbering started at zero!

All the houses appeared to be built at the same time, so the obvious theory went straight out of the window, [if you'll excuse the pun!], but it got me wondering as to just how common is "zero" in house numbering in the UK?

[Or anywhere else, as an afterthought, particularly for those "across the pond"]

Has anyone else got zero's on their patch?

The house that I saw was in, I think, Victoria Street, Ellesmere Port.

Baldeagle, in Staffordshire, where lots of streets in Stafford are numbered consecutively.

[rosskesava]

Hi baldeagle

I've never seen a number zero. Not once.

There's older streets around here that have no number 13 but not one that I've come across with a number zero but I'll now keep my eyes open for one.

cheers

[s.hughes]

Never seen zero but on a road I clean there are a load of numbers missing from where they were going to build a load of houses in the 50's they didnt get round to doing it. Another one which a lot of w/c come across is the numbering will count up as you walk down a certain named street. The next thing you know the street has changed its name and the numbers keep climbing. I have only noticed this on new areas.
Strange

Steveyboy

[AuRavelling79]

The Japanese Air Force had loads of Zero's during WW2.

[windows_chepstow]

I've no Zeros, but what winds me up is when people phone me for quotes and can't provide a house number!  Just some posh name like 'Breacon Grove'; followed by a complex set of directions.

[Duke]

I always try and get a postcode from any new customer....then look it up on multimap if I'm not sure where it is....

[Duke]

in case some of you don't use it, or havn't heard of it.....(unlikely)


www.multimap.com

or


www.streetmap.co.uk

[windows_chepstow]

What's multimap (okay I know I could Google for it - but if Duke's got it...).  Is it some sort of in car GPS system?

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Thanks.

[Duke]

I don't use google specifically...if you want a good multi-search engine...try Copernic...even the free version is good !

not sure of the URL, but I think it's...    www.copernic.com

[windows_chepstow]

Duke,

Really getting off-topic here, but I think within the next five years it will be a word in the Oxford English Dictionary which means, when someone says 'I'm going to Google for something', it's going to mean a general statement about searching for something on the internet.  Not exactly what search engine you're using.

I will have a look at your suggested search engine though.  I always assumed 'Google' was the best.

Regards

Tosh

[Duke]

no probs mate...I've been using the free one for years...it's good !