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Originally Posted by Retlaw
As I said Retlaw was clutching at straws. I'm sure on some streets and roads (in any town or city) you could have gaps between properties ranging from a few feet to a thousand yards. The enumerators wouldn't give every vacant plot a number just because they were there and there was future potential for development would they?
Clutching at straws thats a laugh, its thee thats clutching at straws.
The Hope and Anchor is numbered 27 & 29 to this day just as it was then, your numbering in the 1909 map is wrong.
The first from the top of Peel St then was number 3, and the numbers carried on from there, nu 5 is now a shoe shop, what later became known as Catlows was nu 19, then on the corner with Marques St was nu 21 Slaters Arms.
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You're clutching at straws again Walt. You either keep harping back 60 years prior to the photo in question, or (as now) you've leapt forward 80 years on from it. There was bound to be changes after they demolished half the town centre and created Broadway (or whatever it's called). They were bound to re-number at some point.
There is no shame in admitting you're wrong you know. If you prove my findings wrong, I can promise you I'll be the first to come on here, holding my hands up and admit I'm wrong. But I don't see that happening any time soon.
Your problem is, you have been regarded by many as some kind of local guru, because you had/have a wealth of info, statistics, resources and knowledge of your home town (and probably more besides) and because of that, you have let it go to your head and somehow felt because of your superiority on such matters that you can belittle others input with a smart quip, a put down and a few old documents, but then once in a while, along comes someone who can hold their own and you don't like it. Like one person said (katex I think), you should encourage their interest, not ridicule their ignorance.
It's been fun talking to you though and you sure know your stuff, but you're not infallible, as has been proven.
I honestly believe the likes of Margaret and Jaysay when they say you're a lovely man and I'll always have time for anyone that takes an interest in, has pride in and has a passion for the town where they live, but you really could try and reign in your put downs of others. It really isn't a nice trait.