On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 22:35:20 +0100, "Rich Mackin"
wrote:

"SteveH" wrote in message . ..
Joe Patrick wrote:

Just Featured a man complaining about the noise on the North Circular, a
woman complaining about trams and a family whos garden got sucked in a hole
by the CTRL works. CTRL won and featured Howard who was put infront of a
video clip putting the award in a tunnel.

Never understood this kind of wingeing ****e.


I mean, you _know_ if you buy a house on the North Circular or a railway
line that it's going to be noisy. And I'm sure the price paid also
reflected this.

At the time the chap moved into the house by the North Circular,
41 years ago, it was just a regular street, so it's something that
has happened while he's been living there.

My parents went to visit relatives who lived on " *The* North Circular
*Road " before the war. It's obvious a road given a "Proper Name" like
that, as opposed to "Green Lane", say, was always destined to be a
significant traffic artery, like "The Great North Road", or "The
Western Avenue".

I used the N.C.R. to get to work between Harrow Rd. and Muswell Hill
in 1969 and FWIR is not significantly different now apart from some
junction improvements squeezed in.

DG

In article , derek
writes
I used the N.C.R. to get to work between Harrow Rd. and Muswell Hill
in 1969 and FWIR is not significantly different now apart from some
junction improvements squeezed in.

The bit from the M4 to the A1 is pretty much the same (including a
stretch that's still single carriageway!), although there are some
significant widenings on the eastern sections.

Do we know where the complainant lives?
--
"It used to be that what a writer did was type a bit and then stare out of the
window a bit, type a bit, stare out of the window a bit. Networked computers
make these two activities converge, because now the thing you type on and the
window you stare out of are the same thing" - Douglas Adams 28/1/99.

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 08:26:15 -0400, Roland Perry wrote:
Do we know where the complainant lives?

From the small bit I saw I would say about he
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap...186898&A=Y&Z=1

David

In article , David Walters
writes
Do we know where the complainant lives?

From the small bit I saw I would say about he
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap...186898&A=Y&Z=1

Ha! Right by Staples Corner, which has been an infamous bottleneck since
time began (and when the Staples in question was a furniture store, not
an office equipment superstore).
--
"It used to be that what a writer did was type a bit and then stare out of the
window a bit, type a bit, stare out of the window a bit. Networked computers
make these two activities converge, because now the thing you type on and the
window you stare out of are the same thing" - Douglas Adams 28/1/99.

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
...
In article , David Walters
writes
Do we know where the complainant lives?

From the small bit I saw I would say about he
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap...186898&A=Y&Z=1

Ha! Right by Staples Corner, which has been an infamous bottleneck since
time began (and when the Staples in question was a furniture store, not
an office equipment superstore).
--

Do you know, I always wondered where the name of Staples Corner came from, I
felt it couldn't be after the office equipment/stationery company, in spite
of their presence.

Andrew

"Andrew" typed



"Roland Perry" wrote in message
...
In article , David Walters
writes
Do we know where the complainant lives?

From the small bit I saw I would say about he
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap...186898&A=Y&Z=1

Ha! Right by Staples Corner, which has been an infamous bottleneck since
time began (and when the Staples in question was a furniture store, not
an office equipment superstore).
--

Do you know, I always wondered where the name of Staples Corner came from, I
felt it couldn't be after the office equipment/stationery company, in spite
of their presence.

Staples Mattresses had a good reputation. I think that's where they were made.

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

In article , Andrew
writes
Do you know, I always wondered where the name of Staples Corner came from, I
felt it couldn't be after the office equipment/stationery company, in spite
of their presence.

I'm not sure when the furniture store closed. Guessing wildly, perhaps
15 years ago? I'd be interested to know if anyone remembers which corner
of the junction had the Staples store, and did it close before or after
the E/W North Circular flyover was built.

The office equipment store was their 2nd or 3rd in the UK [I forget if
it or the Cambridge one opened earliest]. Oddly, the PC World across the
road was also the third one of those (and before it was bought by
Dixons), the first being Croydon, second at Lakeside.

The Staples was built on the site of the former B&Q which was damaged by
the IRA bombing of the flyover (Oct 8th 93), and without doing more
research probably opened in the summer of 94 (that N/S flyover was still
closed). B&Q didn't want to redevelop the site as they were only opening
"B&Q Depots" at the time, and the site wasn't big enough.
--
"now, the thing you type on and the window you stare out of are the same thing"

In article ,
Roland Perry wrote:

The office equipment store was their 2nd or 3rd in the UK [I forget if
it or the Cambridge one opened earliest].

The office equipment store in Cambridge opened when I was a fourth year
student; late 93 or early 94. Before that it was a DIY store -
Homebase? Before they took over Texas and moved to the Beehive? I could be
wrong.

Gareth
--
http://www.rumnies.com/ Gareth Marlow
__________________________________________________ ____________________

C-3P0:I do believe they think I am some kind of god.

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 15:01:13 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:



The Staples was built on the site of the former B&Q which was damaged by
the IRA bombing of the flyover (Oct 8th 93), and without doing more
research probably opened in the summer of 94 (that N/S flyover was still
closed). B&Q didn't want to redevelop the site as they were only opening
"B&Q Depots" at the time, and the site wasn't big enough.


I do believe that's where the original Staples was. Unless my mind is
playing tricks with me vis-a-vis the current Staples. ISTR it had a
biege facade and signeage mentioning "Beds" and "Furniture".

I've definitely seen the Staples store, and AIR there were no
commercial buildings on the NCR adjacent to the bottom end of the M1
extension, and on the opposite side of the Edgware Road to the
Staples/BQ/Staples site there was just railway yards and depots behind
hoardings.


Unless I'm wrong. It was 1971! ;-)

DG

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 15:01:13 +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
In article , Andrew
writes
Do you know, I always wondered where the name of Staples Corner came from, I
felt it couldn't be after the office equipment/stationery company, in spite
of their presence.

I'm not sure when the furniture store closed. Guessing wildly, perhaps
15 years ago?

Staples Mattress moved from Staples Corner to Huntingdon in 1986
acording to http://www.myersbeds.co.uk/st_staplescorner.html

I'd be interested to know if anyone remembers which corner
of the junction had the Staples store, and did it close before or after
the E/W North Circular flyover was built.

The myersbeds page refers to a northbound flyover opening in 1976
but I assume that is the A5.

David