"Stimpy" wrote in message
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:55:13 +0000, Tom Anderson wrote
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Peter Masson wrote:

Incidentally, Euston Square station was originally named, more
appropriately, Gower Street. It was only renamed in 1909 as a late
reaction to the opening of tube stations at Euston on both the Hampstead
Tube and the City & South London Railway (now the Charing Cross and Bank
branches of the Northern Line).

The story i heard is that it was a Windscale job, renamed after a series
of gruesome murders in the area, which had rather tarnished the name of
Gower Street. Tarnished it more than the presence of the Godless
Institution already had, that is!

What's "a Windscale job"?

He means changing the name of something that has developed a tarnished
reputation. After the Windscale fire in 1957 they changed the name of the
plant to Sellafield in 1961.
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David Biddulph