I'm suffering from Bored at Lunch Syndrome today, and wondered where the highest door number is in Sheffield. Road names tend to change at the magical 999, thus resetting the numbering to 1, but there must be one that carries on??
Also - do any roads in Sheffield have houses only with names rather than numbers? I know some people name their houses, but they also have a number. Do any just have a name? Even Long Line is numbered, though a few have names.
Hope there are more bored people out there...!

I think there is a historical local bye law preventing a house number from being higher than 999.
But to expand the discussion a little:-
Most street numbers are oriented such that, the lower numbers are at the town centre end of the street in general. But did you know that in the 19th century they changed to this method from having the highest number at the town centre end of the street. I think there are some very old streets which are numbered the old way.

and why dont they have number 13's on some streets? old susps??

The road I live on is numbered with the smallest numbers away from town... The houses were built around the 1880's I believe.

I just looked up Banner cross post office. 999 ecc road!
Number 13 is sometimes harder to sell. My parents live next door to one and buyers have been very superstitious in the past. When I used to take paper round in my youth, I remember about half all roads in wadsley had 12a instead of 13.

yeah ive done estates where its been 11, 11a, 15
some flats must be higher than 999? i know in USA they go bigger - typical!

my parents road doesn't have a 13.

imagine having 666? gutted

I think Ecclesall Road has the highest number (I think its the same numbering system from city centre right the way up Ecclesall Road South.

highest I've lived at is 589 Middlewood Road, don't think that road goes a lot higher than 600 though.

Originally posted by NatalieSheff
imagine having 666? gutted

haahaa- your just asking for it moving into a house with a number like that!!!

the highest door number i've had is a paltry 95, currently split between a 17 and 77 (home and uni).

My uncle sold his house, a number 41, only to move into another 41!

the number of ur house is supposed to sig something - i was talking to a numerologist the other day

Originally posted by dinp
the highest door number i've had is a paltry 95, currently split between a 17 and 77 (home and uni).

My uncle sold his house, a number 41, only to move into another 41!

I'm sure this interests noone but me but I've lived in

2,10,30,126,311,65,65,81,589,68

coming from a new town, where the town was throughly planned and most streets had a consistent 100 or so houses I was quite taken the first time I lived in a big numbered house.

ow ow i lived at 13, 2, 6, 21, 28 and 16!:hihi:

My highest door number is 365. This is an odd number, in the sense that it is not even. It is in no way strange. Unless you live in a land where there are no numbers higher than 364, in which case it would be odd in more ways that one (which is also an odd number).

Originally posted by NatalieSheff
ow ow i lived at 13, 2, 6, 21, 28 and 16!:hihi: Oooh, do we all know your lottery numbers now?

dont do the lot but what a good idea.....:hihi:
i think im going to name my house instead of having a number

Originally posted by NatalieSheff
the number of ur house is supposed to sig something - i was talking to a numerologist the other day

Yeah, it signifies where in the road you live... it's so you can find it if they all look the same. :D

Originally posted by Yodameister
I think Ecclesall Road has the highest number (I think its the same numbering system from city centre right the way up Ecclesall Road South.


No it isn't. Gilders is at number 1 Eccy Road South.

City Road has a 1002 according to Autoroute.

My door number is about 5ft off the ground

Originally posted by Snook
Yeah, it signifies where in the road you live... it's so you can find it if they all look the same. :D
heheh funny guy:mad:
kidding:D

My door number is about 5ft off the ground An interesting twist to the thread. Hmm. Mine is in black plastic italics (looks a little like New Times Roman font).

Could I just drift off topic for a second and say that the lowest house number I have lived at is the number 4? I just thought people may be interested to know that.

My uncle sold his house, a number 41, only to move into another 41!
This is the most amazing thing i have ever come across, you must be very proud of your uncle wow!

Originally posted by Ant
An interesting twist to the thread. Hmm. Mine is in black plastic italics (looks a little like New Times Roman font).


my friend made me a plack at his work with my number and road on it, it looks ace. he also made those trendy lamposts on division street opp that posh jewelers

I have lived in 4 houses on the road I currently live on. I was also born on this road. At ths moment I live at 128 but I have lived at 127, 143 and 169.

yeah my buddy lives a few doors from her parents and her 2 sisters are opp side of road, one set of gramps on next street and one round corner Strange! i live miles from mine cos they moved 2 weeks ago - was it something i said?hehe

Originally posted by Snook
Yeah, it signifies where in the road you live... it's so you can find it if they all look the same. :D
Funny I was thinking the same thing, maybe there is something in it after all!

Originally posted by carcrash
I have lived in 4 houses on the road I currently live on. I was also born on this road. At ths moment I live at 128 but I have lived at 127, 143 and 169.
Can you expand on that, I have never been able to understand why some pople do that :confused:

I was born at 143 but my family moved to Woodhouse when I was 4.
When I was 18 I moved into a shared house where I lived for 5 years. (127)
Moved to Nether Edge where I met my missus, we decided to move into a house together and we knew somebody who was moving out of a decent rented house (169).
We lived there for about a year but we found a better house up the road that was for rent and was cheaper so we moved there. (128)
Rented it for 6 years and the people who owned it asked if we wanted to buy it at below market price so we said yes.

The highest number i've seen on City Road is opposite the Mansfield Rd Fire Station which is number 998.

When the town plans were originally set out it was decided that all houses on the right hand side - as viewed from a plan with the Town Hall as the centre - would be even numbered starting at number 2 and all those on the left would be odd numbers.

Does anyone know where this doesn't apply?

Originally posted by NatalieSheff
imagine having 666? gutted

There's a real place called Lickey End in Worcestershire :hihi:

Imagine living at n.o. 69 of ANY street there
:heyhey: :clap: :thumbsup:

Originally posted by Snook
Yeah, it signifies where in the road you live... it's so you can find it if they all look the same. :D My sister once sent a letter to

the house with the blue balcony
opposite the cinema
(actual town she knew)

And it got there!!!

Abbeydale Road goes up to 997, Natwest in Millhouses.

Fadic Numbers are found when you add the digits of a number together to get a single digit. eg 123 = 6(1+2+3) 54=9(5+4), And larger numbers you have to add twice sometimes 99 = 18(9+9) = 9(1+8).
So every number no matter how large can be represented by a number between 1 and 9.

This is interesting for phone numbers, address numbers and car number plates.

The addresses I have lived at :-
14 = 5, 905 = 14 = 5, 23 = 5 and 54 = 9
If I now add them together in a fadic way
5 + 5 + 5 + 9 = 24 = 6

therefore my fadic address so far is 6

I was born at 1114 Birley Moor Road, but it was a mistake.

Does anyone know where this doesn't apply?
Some small cul-de-sacs or squares number up one side and down the other. There aren't many like that in Sheffield. Paradise Square is one.

Oddly enough up-n-down numbering also starts on the left at No.1 - except in Whitby where Church Street goes up the right and down the left - all 170 or so houses!

My cousin sent a letter addresses simply "That house with green curtains -Sheffield" -and it never arrived..

Originally posted by BAZZO
My cousin sent a letter addresses simply "That house with green curtains -Sheffield" -and it never arrived..

Could be cos you've got red curtains!

one of the roads on my paper round in oughtibridge used to have numbers that went 1,2,3 all the way up and then down the other side.
the highest number iv lived at is 151 then 63 and now 9 and for a very short period when i was born number 1

I have lived at a 40 and 144.

Alex

Be glad you dont live in Toronto. There is a street there that is 1,178 miles long !

http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20021121.html

Lord knows what numbering system they use there :P

[On north-south streets, street numbers increase as you move away from Lake Ontario, with even numbers being on the west side. On east-west streets, they increase as you move away from Yonge Street, with even numbers on the north.]