"Robin9" wrote in message
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;149750 Wrote:
Well, it's already declared itself to be a city. There was a sign near
the bus station saying that it was proud to be a host city of some
international sporting event, Rugby I think.

. . . and buses running down Leyton High Road have "Stratford City" on
their
destination boards.

Oh!

because that's the name of the shopping centre :-(

We'll have someone complaining next that when they get on a bus with
"Victoria" on the board it doesn't take them to Canada

tim

"tim....." wrote:
"Robin9" wrote in message
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;149750 Wrote:
Well, it's already declared itself to be a city. There was a sign near
the bus station saying that it was proud to be a host city of some
international sporting event, Rugby I think.

. . . and buses running down Leyton High Road have "Stratford City" on
their
destination boards.

Oh!

because that's the name of the shopping centre :-(

We'll have someone complaining next that when they get on a bus with
"Victoria" on the board it doesn't take them to Canada

Or Australia.

I've yet to hear anyone round here call either shopping centre "Stratford
City". The new one is universally referred to as "Westfield" and the old one
was always known as "the Stratford shopping centre."

Robin9 wrote:

I've yet to hear anyone round here call either shopping centre "Stratford
City". The new one is universally referred to as "Westfield" and the old
one was always known as "the Stratford shopping centre."

HSBC use it as the name for their branch in Westfield. It gets very annoying
when trying to arrange to collect something from there and the phone
operator can't grasp that you're using the name that EVERYBODY uses for it.

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It's also the (silly) name of the small bus station near the Northern exit from the station, and the whole development on the old railway lands. However, it is Newham, not Stratford, which declares that it is proud to be a host city for, I think, the Rugby World Cup.