Who names new roads?
 

wrote

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.

--
Mike D

Who names new roads?
 

Michael R N Dolbear wrote:
wrote

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.

Streetmap claims that there is no "Letsby Avenue" anywhere in Britain.
--
Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)

Who names new roads?
 

Michael R N Dolbear wrote:
wrote

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"

LOLOLO999.

Who names new roads?
 

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:31:27 GMT, Richard J. wrote:

I notice that part of Gillett St N16 has been renamed to Bailey
Place N16... unfortunately, there is already a Batley Place N16, so
there will be numerous letters sent to the wrong address over the
next 50 years.

Not if the rest of the postcode is present and is used.

Now let's talk about an Underground system that has two stations
called Edgware Road and one called Edgware, but where trains to
Ealing Broadway station are marked Ealing

Abbreviated destination blinds on the District such as 'Ealing', 'Putney'
and 'High Street' have not been seen since the retirement of R/CO/CP stock
in about 1983.

A Stock trains terminating at Harrow-on-the-Hill still display the
slightly ambiguous "Harrow".

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"Michael R N Dolbear" wrote in message
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wrote

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

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On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:14 +0100 (BST), (Colin
Rosenstiel) wrote:

"BDY" was a standard LT abbreviation for "Broadway" up to at least the
late 1960s. I remember buses to HAMMERSMITH BDY, for example.

Which, for years, I misread as "Hammersmith Boy"



--
Bill Hayles

http://billnot.com

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On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:45:55 GMT, "Richard J."
wrote:

Michael R N Dolbear wrote:
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

Streetmap claims that there is no "Letsby Avenue" anywhere in Britain.

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=104468

The papers did cover the story as a need to name an unnamed road for
emergency purposes only, and as the road had a police station Letsby
Ave came into being. However it appears that the name is genuine but
the cause was a spoof letter with a plod heading.

Now check your satnavs for Butt Hole Road...
--
Old anti-spam address cmylod at despammed dot com appears broke
So back to cmylod at bigfoot dot com

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On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:58:33 +0100, asdf
wrote:


Abbreviated destination blinds on the District such as 'Ealing', 'Putney'
and 'High Street' have not been seen since the retirement of R/CO/CP stock
in about 1983.

Anybody else remember the Q stock on the East London line which always
showed Olympia - upside down?


--
Bill Hayles

http://billnot.com

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On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:45:55PM +0000, Richard J. wrote:

Streetmap claims that there is no "Letsby Avenue" anywhere in Britain.

Google maps disagrees.

However, the airport in question has now closed, so maybe it's been dug
up and turned into a business "park" already, and google is out of date.

--
David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness

Suffer the little children to come unto me, as
their buying habits are most easily influenced.
-- Marketroid Jesus

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David Cantrell gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:

However, the airport in question has now closed, so maybe it's been dug
up and turned into a business "park" already

Not quite - it's been turned into an... airport...

http://www.sheffieldcityairport.com/