Thread: Zone 6 conquers ten further Southern stations
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Old November 13th 05, 09:52 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
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Default Zone 6 conquers ten further Southern stations...
Stimpy wrote:

On 13/11/05 21:13, "matt" wrote:

We used to live in Appleton, Cheshire, in the early 70's. When the GPO
decided Warrington was to be our postal district, we rebelled and used
to put "Appleton, Warrington, Cheshire" on our letters,


Why?


'cos we didn't live in Lancashire, but if we didn't put Warrington on
our letters, they ended up in Oxford. Or possibly Wisconsin.

(oh all right then, it was just snobbery :-)
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