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London postal district – Wikipedia

The map is from Bruce Castle Museum in Tottenham

I wasn’t aware of the origins of the London Postcode Districts.

Standing on CWU picket lines at the still existing Tottenham sorting office in Moorfields Rd, N17 (central Tottenham) it was sometimes surprising to find solidarity delegations from Stoke Newington which after all is in Hackney, East London. Except its postcode is N16…

North East London lost its place in postcode history in 1866