General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

"Bryn near Wigan" was a commonplace way of stating address when I was a kid.

That is how our business letterheads were styled.

Local collieries also. (There are some illustrations of this elsewhere on this site)

We even had been instructed in school to adopt this way of stating our address.

Then the post Office wrote to us and asked us not to do so in future. Around the same time, we had moved from Bryn to Ashton, so I never saw the preferred alternative. Post Office's instruction was to use the postal address that was displayed in local Post Office.