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#19 · Posted: 18 May 2005 10:18
Jyrki21 Did European countries tend to have postal codes back then anyway? I believe they're a relatively new invention internationally.
I don't know about Brussels (in fact I didn't know any of the following, but Google is an amazing thing!), but London introduced ten lettered sectors as early as 1858; in 1917 numbered sub-divisions were added, and these became the "outbound" part of the post-code (the initial letter/ number combination). There are only eight sectors these days (WC and EC (West Central and East Central), N, NW, SW, SE, W and E), as S and NE were reallocated to Sheffield and Newcastle.
Generally post-codes were introduced in the UK between 1959 and 1974, so it is possible that Marlinshire had one in the early days, but it may not have been until Picaros that it became available.
jockosjungle: Anyone got a postcode?
"MA" would be my guess, Manchester having used M, and MA still appearing available (the PO seem to have missed Marlinspike/ Marlinshire off their sheet for some unknown reason...).
Given its size and status, befitting a lord of the manor, the prospect is that Marlinspike is close to the county town (if indeed the village near the Captain's house which we see at the station isn't the county seat), and Marlinshire being small (it features in no census I can see, nor is it in the Domesday Book, so it must be very small), then it probably has an outbound code of "MA1", a zero being rarely used in that position.
Can't help on an inbound part for it, I'm afraid, but might take a guess at 1AA, assuming that the "big house" was seen as a suitable place to start the sequence...
NB: The above only applies when Marlinspike is in England; can't help on the Moulinsart front... ;-)
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