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[email protected] · January 22nd 16, 02:00 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Basil Jet)
wrote:

On 2016\01\21 16:41, Recliner wrote:

The strange anomaly is Middlesex, which has been entirely absorbed into
Greater London,

Not quite... Potters Bar was handed over to Hertfordshire.

And the present Borough of Spelthorne (Ashford, Staines, Sunbury, etc) to
Surrey.

but whose name persists in postal addresses in some
boroughs, but not others.

There is also a Middlesex Football Association and presumably
countless other societies. There are also new Middlesex signs that
have been put up at the border within the last few years. Here's one..

=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sV0OriaqNUk5d_6hdsCrtrQ!2e0?force=l ite

It's also odd that places like Bromley still pretend to be in Kent,
though at least Kent still exists, unlike Middlesex.

Middlesex still exists, it just doesn't have a council. It existed
for hundreds of years before it had a council.

We are discussing administrative areas. There is none for Middlesex. When it
was a county its HQ was in London anyway. It was wiped out by the growth of
London. It's gone. It is an ex-county as far as administration of services
for people as opposed to backward-looking sentimentality is concerned.

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Colin Rosenstiel