Bill Hayles wrote:
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"



In my childhood I wondered who St Strand was in the 72 tram destination
SAVOY ST STRAND.

Peter Beale

In article ,
(Bill Hayles) wrote:

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"

I always read it as "Hammersmith Body".

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In article ,
(Bill Hayles) wrote:

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?

Not on my 1971 pictures of it. See www.rosenstiel.co.uk/trains, though
the pictures could be clearer on destination plates.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In message , at 11:25:44 on
Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Colum Mylod remarked:

Now check your satnavs for Butt Hole Road...

Doncaster.
--
Roland Perry

"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote:

Some minor official in the Borough Council. The local one in Cambridge
sometimes drives me to distraction with his perversity.

Do many roads get named (without fanfare) after serving or former local
councillors? A member of my family is convinced that is the case, without
being able to produce any evidence to support this.

Will there one day be a Rosenstiel Mews in Cambridge?

Chris

"Chris Read" wrote in message
...

"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote:

Some minor official in the Borough Council. The local one in Cambridge
sometimes drives me to distraction with his perversity.

Do many roads get named (without fanfare) after serving or former local
councillors? A member of my family is convinced that is the case, without
being able to produce any evidence to support this.

Will there one day be a Rosenstiel Mews in Cambridge?

The 'Colin Rosenstiel Cycle Path', surely?

Paul S

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Paul Scott wrote:

"Chris Read" wrote in message
...

"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote:

Some minor official in the Borough Council. The local one in Cambridge
sometimes drives me to distraction with his perversity.

Do many roads get named (without fanfare) after serving or former local
councillors? A member of my family is convinced that is the case, without
being able to produce any evidence to support this.

Will there one day be a Rosenstiel Mews in Cambridge?

The 'Colin Rosenstiel Cycle Path', surely?

The Colin Rosenstiel Sensible Route From the Platforms To The Bloody
Street at St Pancras?

tom

--
But for [Flavor Flav's] "YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH BOYYYYYYYYYY"s alone he should
be given Rap Legend status. -- Nate Patrin, ILX

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



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

..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

In article ,
(Chris Read) wrote:

"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote:

Some minor official in the Borough Council. The local one in
Cambridge sometimes drives me to distraction with his perversity.

Do many roads get named (without fanfare) after serving or former
local councillors? A member of my family is convinced that is the
case, without being able to produce any evidence to support this.

Quite a few in fact.

Will there one day be a Rosenstiel Mews in Cambridge?

Logically yes because my wife was also a councillor for 26 years until
she retired in May, but no chance in practice. People won't be able to
spell or pronounce it.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article ,
(Chris Read) wrote:

"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote:

Some minor official in the Borough Council. The local one in
Cambridge sometimes drives me to distraction with his perversity.

Do many roads get named (without fanfare) after serving or former
local councillors? A member of my family is convinced that is the
case, without being able to produce any evidence to support this.

Quite a few in fact.

Will there one day be a Rosenstiel Mews in Cambridge?

Logically yes because my wife was also a councillor for 26 years until
she retired in May, but no chance in practice. People won't be able to
spell or pronounce it.

Surely being unspellable is one of the critieria for a new road name.

Incidentally, tonight I discovered that one of the road signs in Helvetia St
SE6 says "Helvtia St". Lewisham Council doesn't know its ares from its
eblow.