CWGC postcode search inaccuracies

[Davedrave]

I have now found a record which shows the correct location for a relative who died in 1918. It is the address given for his father on the CWGC certificate. However, there is no mention of his brother, who died the previous year, even though the address on his certificate is the same. So it seems yet another failing in this search facility.

[Top-of-the-hill]

  "It is the address given for his father on the CWGC certificate." This rather confirms my feeling that the information is already available from the CWGC site. Also it is the address of his father - he was probably living miles away before the War.

[Davedrave]

  "It is the address given for his father on the CWGC certificate." This rather confirms my feeling that the information is already available from the CWGC site. Also it is the address of his father - he was probably living miles away before the War.

The father was living very close to the pub he’d kept (presumably until he retired) which was then run by his daughter. Both sons were living at the pub in 1911 and (both single) may have still been living with their father when they joined up, so his address may have been theirs too. But what I was really questioning was why the record of only one of the sons is found through the postcode search. It is clearly an error.

[Top-of-the-hill]

  I give up - regardless of war memorials in every church, it seems there were only 2 war dead in this entire well populated rural postcode area. (**4 6, so quite a large area)

[KGarrad]

Postcodes were rolled out nationally by 1974, but many people were reluctant to use them!

I remember working in IT in the 1980's, and trying to postcode all addresses in our database.
People living in London in particular hated the "new" postcodes, and efforts to make them compulsory in our database had to be abandoned. 

[casram]

If you go onto the search page, scroll down to additional information and put in the name of the road plus town/village it seems to work I just typed in "Carlton Grove, Peckham" and got a list of names.

Carolyn

[heywood]

That’s much better Carolyn. Thanks.
That needs to be explained better on the site and there is this ‘ Questions or feedback on our new site? Contact us’ at the foot of the page.

I would think it has more specific uses. Not many people would want to search in their local area, perhaps.

I found the brother of the only one which showed as a result of the postcode search yesterday plus several others.
These include 2 men who were neighbours from a small terrace which I can see from our house.

[casram]

Glad it helped. I used it to find people who died in the area I am looking at for a one place study because trying to find war memorials in South London is a nightmare.