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1961: The Street With Confounding House Numbers | Tonight | BBC Archive
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5:26Now Playing"That's number one, and this is number two, and this is number eight... number eight?!"
Alan Whicker reports from a row of terraced houses on the road between Hexham and Gateshead, where the house numbers appear to defy all logic.
Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 25 January, 1961.
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