Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at
00:29:15 on Sun, 15 Aug 2004, David Boothroyd
remarked:
They also sometimes changed the numbering, adopting a uniform
scheme that the smallest number would be the closest part of the
street to St. Paul's Cathedral.

Not perhaps to St Pauls Cathedral, but to the central Post Office
just north of the Cathedral, after which the tube station now known
as St Pauls was originally named.

According to http://www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/lon-str.html , the aim was
of the 1888 renumbering was to arrange for the lowest number to be
closest to the *local* post office.
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Richard J.
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