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In book 5, it says that Sirius' house (number 12) is in between numbers 11 and 13. Is this normal for England? In the US, streets are all even on one side, and all odd on the other, so number 12 would be in between 10 and 14, not 11 and 13.
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Date: 2004-10-03 12:20 am (UTC)The neighborhood also isn't what you could call overcrowded. Number 10 is one of only three remaining houses on Downing, the other two being numbers 11 and 12 (all of which adjoin--having even and odd numbers on opposite sides of the street is an American practice).
Re: Sometimes I use my useless trivia knowledge for good!
Date: 2004-10-03 12:56 am (UTC)How does that work, though? Does it go 1-15 on one side of the street, for one block, and the other side goes 16-30 for a block? Or does one side go all the way through to 1000, and then the other side starts at 1001?
Re: Sometimes I use my useless trivia knowledge for good!
Date: 2004-10-03 04:12 am (UTC)In England we don't operate on a block system - there is only a single city in the UK that does in fact, Milton Keynes (have you read Good Omens?)
On the estate that my best friend lives on, the numbers skip from 14 to 41 :0) *Talks to him about this query* He reckons it's mostly older Victorian Terraces that do the 1, 2, 3 thing (I have a vague feeling a road I once studied in school might have been 1, 2, 3) He points out that even roads with no houses on one side can be numbered just odds or evens :0)
Re: Sometimes I use my useless trivia knowledge for good!
Date: 2004-10-03 06:37 pm (UTC)Do you mean that you don't operate on a grid system? Because when I say "block" I just mean "a row of houses across the street from another row of houses". So one block would be, say, the stretch of St. Paul's avenue from Taxter (that's a cross-street) and Beech (that's the next cross-street). My street is two blocks on one side and one long block on the other (because there's a street that stops at our street, so one side of the street has that street in the middle, and the other doesn't)
Re: Sometimes I use my useless trivia knowledge for good!
Date: 2004-10-03 07:52 am (UTC)I'll have to research this. :D
Re: Sometimes I use my useless trivia knowledge for good!
Date: 2004-10-03 03:13 am (UTC)Grimmauld Place always put me in mind of a sort of square (is that canon or me jumping to conclusions?), and I assumed the houses would have been numbered in a clockwise pattern and no 12 just... wouldn't have been there most of the time. Of course, the magical argument above is excellent :)
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Date: 2004-10-03 03:57 am (UTC)