Corner of Olive Road and St Michaels Road, London NW2
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Corner of Olive Road and St Michaels Road, London NW2
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 12 May 2012
St Michaels Road is on the left, Olive Road on the right. To the left of the modern name sign for St Michaels Road is an older sign embossed on the wall. It shows ST MICHAELS ROAD N.W. which dates it to the time before numbers were added to postal districts. In 1846, Sir Rowland Hill's system of dividing the capital into 10 separate postal districts, based on compass points, was introduced for all addresses within a circle of 12 miles radius from central London. A refinement introduced during World War I was the introduction of sub-districts which were given a serial number, such as NW2.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.556783
Longitude
-0.227168