<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 at 22:18, Michael Collinson <<a href="mailto:mike@ayeltd.biz" target="_blank">mike@ayeltd.biz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
  <div>in Ireland a "descriptive" address
      "The blue house called Bob, on the other side of the stream in the
      village of Inverkeith" is also formally acceptable - this is rare
      globally though.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Way back in Telecom days, so ~ early 80s, I spotted info on somebody's phone service, which had their address listed as "the first driveway on the right after the big Ghost Gum, 500m past the Rock Pools, Currumbin Creek Rd, Currumbin Valley" <br></div><div>Here's Currumbin Creek Rd: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/576351#map=13/-28.2019/153.4181" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/576351#map=13/-28.2019/153.4181</a>, <br></div><div>& the Rock Pools <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/-28.2075/153.3878" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/-28.2075/153.3878</a></div><div>I've driven past there several times, looked for the big Ghost Gum, & said Yep, <i>that</i> would be their driveway!<br clear="all"> </div><div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><p><a href="https://www.houzz.com.au/magazine/how-to-name-your-house-stsetivw-vs~50717452" target="_blank">https://www.houzz.com.au/magazine/how-to-name-your-house-stsetivw-vs~50717452</a></p></div></blockquote><div>Interesting photo of one house in that article:</div><div><a href="https://www.houzz.com.au/photos/summerlees-a-living-piece-of-australian-history-traditional-garden-sydney-phvw-vp~7570749" target="_blank">https://www.houzz.com.au/photos/summerlees-a-living-piece-of-australian-history-traditional-garden-sydney-phvw-vp~7570749</a></div><div><br></div><div>Address out the front is 219 over 7207?</div><div><br></div><div>Never seen an Aussie numbering scheme like that before?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks<div><br></div><div>Graeme</div></div><br></div></div>