While I'm here, the LCC renaming of the 19020s-30s seems to have
missed the fact that there were two Brook Streets in London W. Now
that one is in W1 and the other is in W2, it's not a problem,
however, is this the only case of two roads of the same name in the
same 1930s postcode which the LCC failed to deal with, and if so, I
wonder why? Perhaps both had someone influential living there and
they didn't want to upset them.

You may just possibly be interested in this potted history of name
changes in London and how to track them. (SWMBO is into genealogy and I
get roped in to search for such things.) It alleges that "the L.C.C.
embarked on a very ambitious plan to eliminate all street name
duplication by means of a massive street re-naming scheme lasting many
decades. Unfortunately, at the outbreak of the Second World War, the
scheme was only just nearing completion,..."

http://www.rayment.info/general/road...roduction.html

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Robin
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