Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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"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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