Most of the addressing I’ve been doing recently has been straightforward - particularly if I happen to be doing it on the refuse collection day, since the council bins here have clear addresses on them.

Other days, you come across things like this:

(For the record, my undersanding is that the block starts on the ‘right’ at 36 Alexander Street, the building directly behind the sign takes up addresses 38 and 40, and the block ends at 44 on the ‘left’. But I’m not sure enough to put it on the map.)