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Originally Posted by susie123

Had to see what everyone was on about - just bought one, £2.50 plus postage on ebay. The red cover 1989 edition, very good condition. What a lot of work must have gone into that publication.

Like the Fire Brigade, the police also kept an index of streets in their patch. In the Fire brigade ours was a card index system, which not only listed all the streets, backs, alleys, ginnals, courts & yards,
all the hydrants, ours had all the farms and small holdings as well, when Accrington became the Div HQ, we also added all the other stations in our patch to the card index, one of my jobs was to keep the index up to date. I made it into a book one for every machine in the division. I still have the original draft copy.
Now it has gone computerised, one day when I called in the Fire Station I was given a demo of the new system, so I challenged it and won 7/10, their new system was based on post codes, not every building especially outlying ones have a post code, the post office don't deliver, you collect your own.

Adrian was crafty when he made his street guide, I asked him about some of the streets & places that didn't exist, he said it was to catch the plagarists, which he did on more than one occassion.

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