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perryman

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The start (or finish, depending on your perspective) of the M1 and M4 (other roads are available)?
 

MotCO

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Maybe time for a clue (which may or may not help :s). The original metres were designated in October 1973, and the change took place in March 1975.
 

MotCO

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No, not EU related.

Maybe time for another clue. The metres I am referring to, you don't usually see.
 

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No, not EU related.

Maybe time for another clue. The metres I am referring to, you don't usually see.
I was thinking that it was an underwater boundary of some sort but I’ve no idea what.
Is it something to do with the England/Wales border in the Severn Estuary?
 

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Is it to with the fact the earth is not a sphere but an oblate spheroid so was the latitude and longitude lines of the earth adjusted even though Greenwich stayed the same?

Ooh! Nothing so complicated!
 

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I was thinking that it was an underwater boundary of some sort but I’ve no idea what.
Is it something to do with the England/Wales border in the Severn Estuary?

No, nothing to do with any boundaries, nor indeed anything to do with water.
 

MotCO

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Another clue. In 1973, it was in Lots Road. In 1975, it was moved to Saffron Green.
 

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Total guesswork now - a school was moved that had a famous former pupil?

No, the actual answer does not refer to a building, or a boundary. More lateral thinking is required. What, apart from distance, is measured in metres?
 

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Lots Road. Wasn't that a power station that fed the London Underground. Guessing that it a use for the power station that isn't necessarily power generation!
 

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Lots Road. Wasn't that a power station that fed the London Underground. Guessing that it a use for the power station that isn't necessarily power generation!

Yes, Lots Road was the LU power station, but I suspect it was only used because they could attach an aerial to the tower(s). THe answer does not relate to power generation, nor LU.
 

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They were transmission wavelengths, but not these two stations. Think about what was happening to the industry in 1973 and the next few years.

Some commercial radio station or other. Was LBC a thing back then?
 

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