CWGC postcode search inaccuracies

[AllanUK]

  Except that it doesn't!

Totally agree -- as much use as a chocolate fire guard as my grandfather used to say.

[Kiltaglassan]

Just checked my postcode. Two soldiers from a street half a mile from me died in WW1.

[JenB]

It is showing those who died from your present area.

  Except that it doesn't!

Quite.

A large number of Hexham men died in the World Wars.

I have tried several Hexham postcodes, and they all give me the same man, Adam Telfer, said to be from Alexandra Crescent, Hexham. However it's clear from the inscription that that was his parents address, in Blyth, some 30 miles away.

[heywood]

I was just trying to answer BumbleB’s query.

It obviously works  for some people. The house is still there for the person I found . I am not sure how useful it is, other than those who are researching local history etc.

I tried it with my daughters postcode with similar results - plus a street view of the house.

[JenB]

I think the problem with the incorrect result I got is that Alexandra Crescent in Blyth no longer appears to exist.

So it is sending me to the next nearest Alexandra Crescent, even though it's the wrong one.

[Davedrave]

My first search was for a still-existing address (Victorian terraced housing) where an ancestor killed in 1918 lived. It was interesting to find that he was one of five from that smallish street who died, and gives an insight into the impact of the war on the communities where our ancestors lived. However, I think that there are likely to be so many records that are either missing or simply wrong that it is of very limited usefulness.

[LizzieL]

Totally agree -- as much use as a chocolate fire guard as my grandfather used to say.

Chocolate fireguard was an expression my grandmother used to use. She was from York well known for chocolate manufacture

[BumbleB]

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[heywood]

Irrelevant - deleted