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Introduction
Many of these images were taken at night because I was working as a private hire, aka minicab, driver specialising in the night shift.
++++ List firms worked for with link to vehicle. Minc0304.cal is good starting point
Romford
Post 1
++++ re-photograph to show seam in road surface
The last post in this list, Post 217 has not been found but is described as being on the bank of the Thames. This post is about 9 miles from the point opposite Post 217 on the North bank and about 5 miles from the nearest point on the bank. Why the vast gap? Have all the posts disappeared?
Some possibly have disappeared but I think the answer is also that this area was very marshy and there were few roads through it.
Post 2
On Barking & Dagenham / Havering boundary.
Note seam in road surface.
Chadwell Heath
Post 3
Post 4
Perambulation of the Forest of Waltham, 8th September 1641 (17th Charles I).
Havering Stone
One of the Forest Meer or Boundary Stones set up by authority of the Commissioners appointed under the Great Seal.
Re-erected by the Essex County Council and the Essex Field Club. 1909.
See
this page on the Hainault Forest website
Post 5
++++ bring in write up from wip_nor and link to
link
Collier Row
Post 6
Post 6 should be in the hedge just to the left of the sign but I could see no trace of it. Note seam in road surface.
Post 7
Hog Hill Road. Apparently, lurking in the vegetation near the speed limit sign there is the
Collier Row stone, one of the Hainault Forest boundary stones. The write-up says a "lamp post … was digitally removed". I presume by "lamp post" they actually mean the speed limit sign.
Post 8
Epping
Old Orleans
++++ decide on best place initinerary
Theydon Bois
Post 11
TQ 446 984 At the point where Debden Lane, Loughton becomes Loughton Lane, Theydon Bois.
Opposite an house called “The Boundary”.
The retro-reflective sign in this picture says “Theydon Bois”
Epping
Post 12
Post 13
TL 437 004 Epping Road, Epping
about 500 metres SW of the Bell Common Tunnel
Essex
Post 14
Post 15
Post 16
Post 17
Post 18
Post 19
Wormley
Obelisk 20
Obelisk 21
Brookmans Park site
Broxbourne
Post 22
Post 23
Hertsmere
Post 31
Three decent sized images in
this this blog post. On the course of Potters Bar Golf Club - closed in 2018.
(A director fringe golf club closing! This forum thread makes one suggestion: “For a long time it was a Jewish-only course . It probably left it too late to try and change.”)
Post 34
The Queen's Head public house (now apparently closed) stands 50 yards to the east of this post on the corner of Coursers Road and High Street, London Colney.
The entry at Historic England for the pub says “canted front bay said to have been used for the collection of Coal Tax”.
London Colney
Post 37
Post 38
TL 175 032
Shenley Lane, London Colney
South side of Broad Colney Bridge
Shenley
Post 39
Harper Lane, Shenley
Midway between these two Tax Posts. Just a post to announce that this is No. 100 but nice echoes of Tax Posts.
Cab drivers on night shift wish that all houses showed their numbers as clearly as this.
Post 40
Radlett
Post 43
Post 44
Watford
Post 47
Posts 47 and 48
Grimsdyke
The house where W. S. Gilbert lived and died. (Cannot think of any connection with Coal Tax Posts!)
Oxhey
Post 49
TQ 131 926, E side of Oxhey Lane, outside No 1 "The Hollies" and immediately NW of Burntoak Farm
Post 50
I am sure I looked for this on 2012 Jun 07 and could not find it.
Post 51
Northwood
Obelisk 52
I cannot now recall where exactly I took this photo but I am pretty sure it is just the opposite side of the path from Obelisk 52. The railway at this point is the Metropolitan Line between Northwood and Moor Park. I cannot see why
London County Council Tramways should need this box - more than an hundred yards from the nearest tram tracks.
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