On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, John Rowland wrote:

James Farrar wrote:
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:40:38 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, John Rowland wrote:

Mizter T wrote:
John Rowland wrote:

Aldgate East station is in Whitechapel High Street. It should
probably be called Whitechapel, and Whitechapel should be called
something else!

Aldgate East is in the vicinity of Aldgate, so I don't really buy
that argument.

No, it's in the vicinity of Whitechapel, as evidenced by the fact
that it's on Whitechapel High Street.

Don't people now refer to the area around Whitechapel tube as
Whitechapel, though?

Yup, IME.

"Directions and site maps are available for The Royal London Hospital
in Whitechapel".

I don't think anyone is disputing that Whitechapel Station and the RL
Hospital are in Whitechapel. But Aldgate East is (as I may have already
mentioned) in Whitechapel High Street, and if you're going to have a station
called Whitechapel, Aldgate East should be the one.

Only if Whitechapel High Street is the centre of Whitechapel. Clearly, it
once was - is it now?

Actually, rename Whitechapel to Whitechapel Hospital, and rename the
hospital to that as well.

I submit that renaming the station to Whitechapel Road might be simpler.

Then after 10 years or so you could rename Aldgate East to Whitechapel,
or Whitechapel High Street.

I'd suggest Whitechapel High Street, to reduce the change that people will
confuse it with the old Whitechapel. Better yet - how about Commercial
Street?

tom

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