Postal addresses: a little history and a lot of photos

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THE ALBUM

The following pages show one image for each current geographical postcode district. In selecting the photos, I have tried not to feature the same photographer too many times (although I may exhibit a very slight bias towards my own pictures!). However, some contributors have covered certain areas very heavily so naturally their pictures will have come up in search results very often in those regions.

It is not intended to be a photo 'typical' of the area as such, as this would be virtually impossible. A typical postcode district for a provincial market town is likely to contain the town itself and many outlying villages. In these cases I have tended to pick an image that typifies the centre of the town itself – the marketplace, perhaps, or if a coastal resort the seafront. In the same way, for a district covering the suburbs of a large town, the selected image does not claim to represent the overall housing in the area. But it is an image I have picked because it seems to typify the general situation, if not the exact area.

I have provided a little commentary on the area covered, and any interesting quirks that are apparent from a postal point of view.

Most of all, I hope you enjoy perusing the variety of images taken from across these Isles.

AB

The postcode area AB derives its name from the city of Aberdeen and, fairly straightforwardly, comprises the entirety of postal addresses in Aberdeenshire, Banffshire and Kincardineshire. (At local government reorganisation in 1974, the old Scottish counties, unlike many in England and Wales, were not substituted by the Post Office, so the old county names remain correct for postal purposes.)

The AB area was reconfigured in August 1990, whereby the AB1, AB2, AB3, AB4 and AB5 areas were expanded to two-digit numbers beginning with the original single digit – AB1x, AB2x etc.

AB10-12 – postal address ABERDEEN
AB13 – postal address MILLTIMBER, Aberdeenshire (separated from ABERDEEN in January 1996)
AB14 – postal address PETERCULTER, Aberdeenshire (separated from ABERDEEN in January 1996)


AB15-16 – postal address ABERDEEN


AB21-25 – postal address ABERDEEN


AB30 – postal address LAURENCEKIRK, Kincardineshire
AB31 – postal address BANCHORY, Kincardineshire
AB32 – postal address WESTHILL, Aberdeenshire (replaced SKENE in January 1996)
AB33 – postal address ALFORD, Aberdeenshire
AB34 – postal address ABOYNE, Aberdeenshire


AB35 – postal address BALLATER, Aberdeenshire
AB36 – postal address STRATHDON, Aberdeenshire
AB37 – postal address BALLINDALLOCH, Banffshire
AB38 – postal address ABERLOUR, Banffshire
AB39 – postal address STONEHAVEN, Kincardineshire


AB41 – postal address ELLON, Aberdeenshire
AB42 – postal address PETERHEAD, Aberdeenshire
AB43 – postal address FRASERBURGH, Aberdeenshire
AB44 – postal address MACDUFF, Banffshire
AB45 – postal address BANFF


AB51 – postal address INVERURIE, Aberdeenshire
AB52 – postal address INSCH, Aberdeenshire
AB53 – postal address TURRIFF, Aberdeenshire
AB54 – postal address HUNTLY, Aberdeenshire
AB55 – postal address KEITH, Banffshire
AB56 – postal address BUCKIE, Banffshire

AL

AL is centred on St Albans, and the area covers central Hertfordshire.

AL1-AL4 – postal address ST. ALBANS, Herts.
AL5 – postal address HARPENDEN, Herts.


AL6 – postal address WELWYN, Herts.
AL7-8 – postal address WELWYN GARDEN CITY, Herts.
AL9-10 – postal address HATFIELD, Herts.

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