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  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Anything over 6 miles as the Crow flies from the City of London is not London to me...
    Using that logic Spurs are therefore not a London team
    I chose the city as we're much closer to there than Palace are.

    Going by Trafalgar Square, we're only 0.5 miles closer...
    Where are you based @s@SE10Addick mate?
  • SE10Addick
    SE10Addick Posts: 2,964
    Anything over 6 miles as the Crow flies from the City of London is not London to me...
    Using that logic Spurs are therefore not a London team
    I chose the city as we're much closer to there than Palace are.

    Going by Trafalgar Square, we're only 0.5 miles closer...
    Where are you based @s@SE10Addick mate?
    Kent!
  • BDL
    BDL Posts: 6,001
    Oi Flash, here's one to blow your brain - Look up Where Surrey County Council are based........
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,623
    BDL said:
    Oi Flash, here's one to blow your brain - Look up Where Surrey County Council are based........
    The County Hall is in Kingston upon Thames in .......... London
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,623
    And in a roundabout way BDL you have helped me prove I'm right

    https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/people-and-community/surrey-matters/community/county-hall-move
  • BDL
    BDL Posts: 6,001
    Damn! But it was in Surrey until the creation of Greater London, so HISTORICALLY Kingston was part of Surrey and is still referred to as Surrey, just like Teddington was in Middlesex (Which no longer exists as an authority).

    So, being pedantic (like you Flashers), yes they are in Greater London but, historically, they are in their former counties.

    I suspect that NW Kent will be engulfed by Greater London eventually. So Dartford will be in London, but I'll bet you will still say its in Kent ;-)
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    edited May 2019
    London Gatwick, 
    London Heathrow
    London Stansted 

    and the most unique - London Luton ??? Wtf's that all about.

    Spose you can't blame the home counties for wanting to be part of, what was, the greatest City in the World

  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    .....weren't Manston "London" an all?
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,849
    Surrey play cricket at The Oval but that doesn't mean that anyone would seriously suggest that modern day Kennington isn't part of London!
  • DRAddick
    DRAddick Posts: 3,588
    London Gatwick, 
    London Heathrow
    London Stansted 

    and the most unique - London Luton ??? Wtf's that all about.

    Spose you can't blame the home counties for wanting to be part of, what was, the greatest City in the World

    Don't forget London Southend!
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  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,623
    BDL said:
    Damn! But it was in Surrey until the creation of Greater London, so HISTORICALLY Kingston was part of Surrey and is still referred to as Surrey, just like Teddington was in Middlesex (Which no longer exists as an authority).

    So, being pedantic (like you Flashers), yes they are in Greater London but, historically, they are in their former counties.

    I suspect that NW Kent will be engulfed by Greater London eventually. So Dartford will be in London, but I'll bet you will still say its in Kent ;-)
    Charlton was once part of Kent.....

    Sadly I think you are right and London will engulf Dartford etc - and given my stubbornness on this subject I will have to say I would then be living in London

    BTW when first married we lived in Crayford and both my kids were born at Sidcup, so I did live in London once and my kids birth certificates say they were born in a London Borough 
  • Acab
    Acab Posts: 725
    Surrey play cricket at The Oval but that doesn't mean that anyone would seriously suggest that modern day Kennington isn't part of London!
    Don’t mention Surrey you’ll wake Blackpool 72 up.
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,623
    London Gatwick, 
    London Heathrow
    London Stansted 

    and the most unique - London Luton ??? Wtf's that all about.

    Spose you can't blame the home counties for wanting to be part of, what was, the greatest City in the World

    I think they are called 'London' to help overseas visitors - if Gatwick didn't have London in front of it people would less likely to be willing to land there and would want to go to Heathrow instead - Heathrow couldn't cope with the demand, hence why the satellite airports were built

    well that's what I think 
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,623
    Surrey play cricket at The Oval but that doesn't mean that anyone would seriously suggest that modern day Kennington isn't part of London!
    It's mad to think that Kennington was once in Surrey 
  • da2 addick
    da2 addick Posts: 54
    Croydon said:
    How did Welling do? 
    Did alright for a team in Kent.
    Welling in the London Borough of Bexley .....
    DA postcode
    This is the subject that just keeps on giving !!!

    Post Office doesn't dictate what council an area is in

    Its in the London Borough of Bexley - that means it's in a London Borough - just like Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Kensington etc etc etc

    Its a fact - upsetting though it may be for some

  • da2 addick
    da2 addick Posts: 54
    Type your commentBexley is in Kent 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,849
    Surrey play cricket at The Oval but that doesn't mean that anyone would seriously suggest that modern day Kennington isn't part of London!
    It's mad to think that Kennington was once in Surrey 
    Southwark and Deptford too. 

    Looking at a map, the Isle of Dogs were once Middlesex!
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,623
    Surrey play cricket at The Oval but that doesn't mean that anyone would seriously suggest that modern day Kennington isn't part of London!
    It's mad to think that Kennington was once in Surrey 
    Southwark and Deptford too. 

    Looking at a map, the Isle of Dogs were once Middlesex!
    That has really fried my brain - I've always considered Middlesex to be a west of London area !!
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    London Gatwick, 
    London Heathrow
    London Stansted 

    and the most unique - London Luton ??? Wtf's that all about.

    Spose you can't blame the home counties for wanting to be part of, what was, the greatest City in the World

    I think they are called 'London' to help overseas visitors - if Gatwick didn't have London in front of it people would less likely to be willing to land there and would want to go to Heathrow instead - Heathrow couldn't cope with the demand, hence why the satellite airports were built

    well that's what I think 
    I think you're right mate, but the powers that be should give the traveller the benefit of doubt and trust they can use a map when booking flights in to southern England imo
  • N01R4M
    N01R4M Posts: 2,577
    Surrey play cricket at The Oval but that doesn't mean that anyone would seriously suggest that modern day Kennington isn't part of London!
    It's mad to think that Kennington was once in Surrey 
    Southwark and Deptford too. 

    Looking at a map, the Isle of Dogs were once Middlesex!
    And, of course, North Woolwich was in Kent.
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  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,623
    And if your head was in a spin over this already, spin faster

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27140505
  • MillwallFan
    MillwallFan Posts: 3,348
    Anything over 6 miles as the Crow flies from the City of London is not London to me...
    Using that logic Spurs are therefore not a London team
    Arsenal have been a north London club longer than spurs have. True fact that. 
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,338
    Anything over 6 miles as the Crow flies from the City of London is not London to me...
    Using that logic Spurs are therefore not a London team
    Arsenal have been a north London club longer than spurs have. True fact that. 
    Can you explain that, given that Tottenham were formed in North London 31 years before Arsenal left Woolwich? 
  • C_A_F_C
    C_A_F_C Posts: 3,866
    Chizz said:
    Anything over 6 miles as the Crow flies from the City of London is not London to me...
    Using that logic Spurs are therefore not a London team
    Arsenal have been a north London club longer than spurs have. True fact that. 
    Can you explain that, given that Tottenham were formed in North London 31 years before Arsenal left Woolwich? 
    Tottenham was in Middlesex until 1965.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,849
    C_A_F_C said:
    Chizz said:
    Anything over 6 miles as the Crow flies from the City of London is not London to me...
    Using that logic Spurs are therefore not a London team
    Arsenal have been a north London club longer than spurs have. True fact that. 
    Can you explain that, given that Tottenham were formed in North London 31 years before Arsenal left Woolwich? 
    Tottenham was in Middlesex until 1965.
    The only Middlesex team to win the First Division? Chelsea were in the old London County when they won the title
  • MillwallFan
    MillwallFan Posts: 3,348
    C_A_F_C said:
    Chizz said:
    Anything over 6 miles as the Crow flies from the City of London is not London to me...
    Using that logic Spurs are therefore not a London team
    Arsenal have been a north London club longer than spurs have. True fact that. 
    Can you explain that, given that Tottenham were formed in North London 31 years before Arsenal left Woolwich? 
    Tottenham was in Middlesex until 1965.
    This
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,018
    Anything over 6 miles as the Crow flies from the City of London is not London to me...
    Using that logic Spurs are therefore not a London team
    Arsenal have been a north London club longer than spurs have. True fact that. 
    said like a bitter closet Gooner.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,679
    Acab said:
    Surrey play cricket at The Oval but that doesn't mean that anyone would seriously suggest that modern day Kennington isn't part of London!
    Don’t mention Surrey you’ll wake Blackpool 72 up.
    To late.
    The oval home of South London's finest cricket club.
    Charlton and Surrey  for me.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    Croydon said:
    Croydon said:
    se9addick said:
    Croydon said:
    How did Welling do? 
    Did alright for a team in Kent.
    Welling in the London Borough of Bexley .....
    DA postcode
    This is the subject that just keeps on giving !!!

    Post Office doesn't dictate what council an area is in

    Its in the London Borough of Bexley - that means it's in a London Borough - just like Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Kensington etc etc etc

    Its a fact - upsetting though it may be for some
    People from actual London know that anywhere with a DA postcode isn’t in London. 
    What's 'actual London' then ?
    SE, SW, W, E, NW etc etc
    Would you regard Royal Borough of Greenwich as being in London ?
    I would. SE if I'm not mistaken?
    Parts of Royal Borough of Greenwich have DA postcodes - can we agree that postcodes are a red herring on this matter now ?
    No.

    Post Codes were designed to assist Royal Mail deliveries. Nothing whatsoever to do with fish!
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    JohnBoyUK said:
    And West Ham got a new carpet!


    And West ham not only got a new carpet but don't have to pay Andy Carroll 90K a week for laying on a medical couch anymore.  Good news for the sleazy 3, Dave, Dave and Lady muck.