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Old August 20th 08, 10:05 PM posted to uk.transport.london
[email protected] cosmo.johnson@googlemail.com is offline
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Default Who names new roads?

On Aug 20, 8:19*am, "Peter Smyth" wrote:
"Michael R N Dolbear" wrote in messagenews:01c90241$b67f5de0$LocalHost@default...



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Some minor official in the Borough Council. The local one in

Cambridge
sometimes drives me to distraction with his perversity.


At least some have a sense of humour - there's a road by Sheffield
Airport called Letsby Avenue. Appropriately enough when it was built
the only building on it was a police station.


You have been bitten by a Urban Legend I think


Postcode of "police station" and Google/Multimap link please.


http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=let...countryCode=GB

Peter Smyth


..and a Guardian article from 2000 (with a few other vaguely amusing
street names listed)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/fe...rtinwainwright
~cj