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I grew up maybe 300m from the Minus One house mentioned in Clacton On Sea and did a paper in that area for a couple of years and never heard of it so I’m wondering how true some of these really are?

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Well, you can read it ("MINUS ONE") on the front of the house if you zoom in on the StreetView photo. And the Royal Mail recognises it (try pasting "minus one, clacton" into https://www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode).

Though it may be a house name rather than a number.

Yeh I think it’s a name rather than a number to be honest, also I’m going back twenty years so might not have been a thing back then.

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