Round about at the bottom of lordship lane

[rendelharris]

MarkT Wrote:

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> Rendelharris,

> Thanks, I also had believed that distances were

> measured from the cross in front of Charing Cross

> Station, but your answer still leaves me with a

> little confusion. You say that the original

> Eleanor's Cross stood at the "top" of Whitehall. I

> assume by "top" you mean the end at which the

> Cross stood.

>

> Which end of Whitehall is that?

> MarkT

Trafalgar Square end, where the equestrian statue of Charles I now stands.

[Loz]

Well, given the new EDF rules, whatever Foxy thinks is wrong, so it's at the top. :)

Admin... I think we need a vote on whether the roundabout is at the top or the bottom of LL.

[DulwichFox]

When I lived in Peckham near Peckham Hill St. I went UP Rye Lane .. Now I go Down Rye Lane

Used to go DOWN East Lane .. Still go DOWN East Lane (If I went)

Go DOWN the Pub. ?

Go ROUND the bend...

Foxy..

[Loz]

That's like a question someone once asked me: why do we get IN a car, but ON a bus?

[rendelharris]

Loz Wrote:

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> That's like a question someone once asked me: why

> do we get IN a car, but ON a bus?

I was always taught that one gets into something where one is immediately seated (in a car, in a canoe) or but onto something where one walks to one's seat (on a plane, on a bus) or anything that's not enclosed (on a bicycle). But my grammar books are silent on the issue, so I don't think there's a definite prepositional rule one can point to.

[TGAGE]

Thank you for all your interest and thank you to the person that picked up the bricks. As I had little children with me when it happened.

Hope it gets fixed soon.

[Lynne]

I saw an old map that said it's four miles from C Cross to East Dulwich Rd., and that was the boundary for taxis.Was it compulsory to accept a fare if there were no obvious reasons for declining one?

[rendelharris]

Lynne Wrote:

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> I saw an old map that said it's four miles from C

> Cross to East Dulwich Rd., and that was the

> boundary for taxis.Was it compulsory to accept a

> fare if there were no obvious reasons for

> declining one?

Still is - a black cab is supposed to take you wherever you ask provided it's no further than six miles and doesn't take them outside their licensing area.

[Loz]

Apparently it is now 12 miles.

Though that still doesn't stop them saying, "sorry, I'm not going that way". And they wonder why Uber is so popular.

[rendelharris]

Loz Wrote:

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> Apparently it is now 12 miles.

>

> Though that still doesn't stop them saying,

> "sorry, I'm not going that way". And they wonder

> why Uber is so popular.

True that.

[exdulwicher]

I was always under the impression that central London where distances were measured from was Trafalgar Square. However The Knowledge that taxi drivers do is a 6-mile radius from Charing Cross. Not that there's more than about 300m in it anyway but it's an interesting discrepancy.

And none of it remotely relates to Goose Green which as everybody knows is at the top end of Lordship Lane.

Four miles as the crow flies is about right but as the 176 goes it's better measured using a calendar than a ruler!

[rendelharris]

exdulwicher Wrote:

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> I was always under the impression that central

> London where distances were measured from was

> Trafalgar Square. However The Knowledge that taxi

> drivers do is a 6-mile radius from Charing Cross.

> Not that there's more than about 300m in it anyway

> but it's an interesting discrepancy.

As the Hackney Carriage Act of 1831 predates the erection of the Victorian Charing Cross (1863) I'd guess the taxi licensing authorities still take their measurement from the original Charing Cross site (which is from where central London distances are measured, as per above, there's a plaque round the back of the Charles I statue marking the point) - be interested if anyone can confirm or refute this?

[ED_moots]

Isn't the top and bottom of a road about numbering? Lowest number is at the bottom, where the roundabout is.

[edhistory]

The roundabout is in Grove Vale.

[MarkT]

"Isn't the top and bottom of a road about numbering? Lowest number is at the bottom, where the roundabout is."

Or lowest number is at the top, as in any written list.

MarkT