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Hoare’s Bank in London still gives its address as ‘at the sign of the golden bottle’ because that’s how addresses in England looked in 1672, when the bank was founded. Many buildings still only have names rather than numbers.

Some streets have fewer numbers than houses: https://youtu.be/Fr6Gxb97W_c

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