#42

Loved my old street name. It was named Exchange Street, after the Butter Exchange that was the UK and Ireland’s biggest butter market in the late 19th century.

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#43

Squirrel Drive. I’ve seen a few squirrels there.

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#44

It is indeed my b’day! Go raibh maith agat!

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#45

Squirrel is a word that sounds more ridiculous each time you say it.

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#46

my street and nearby streets are named after nearby mountains/hills.

#47

Actually I don’t know if it was Derby at all. There was a music venue called the something Dome and I thought it was the Derby dome but I could be hundreds of miles out. It was just like a school hall inside.

#48

Agreed. Especially when Americans say it.

#49

Tufnell Park Dome looks exactly like a school hall?

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#50

Yeah - it’s the main road through a suburb of the same name

#51

Mine are the same. I suspect at least three other DiSers live within a couple of hundred yards of my house.

I’d never clocked those streets were named after poets. There’s a couple of little through streets i cut down if walking to Trafford Bar or Stretford. Never seen another human-being on them. Think one’s called Arthur Road as i noticed a new sign a few days ago and wondered when they changed from, like, ceramic street signs to the rectangular metal framed ones to the new squarer ones with a new font, and who decides, and if there’s like one firm who have an exclusive contract, etc. I’ve not been working much.

Used to live on a really rough estate called the Lakes Estate, where the streets were named after areas of the Lake District. I’ve noticed that most big cities have one and they’re almost always lairy as fuck.

#52

Yes, it was named after the first name of mother of the (at the time) laird of the area, Sir John Shaw Stewart.
I only know this because I grew up just around the corner from it and did a school project on it many years ago.

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#53

bunch of trees near a park innit. hey round the corner tho there’s tommy johnson walk and sammy cookson close and fred tilson close. no idea who they are

#54

Yes, because I am a nerd and had looked up this document before:

http://www.leytonhistorysociety.org.uk/Leyton%20Streets%20Listing%20main%20part.pdf

The origin of my road name isn’t completely clear, but may be linked to the group of trees at the end of the road.

#55

Heh.

#56

Also, this is a great resource for looking at old street names and the like, back to the late 1800s.

Use the drop downs and you can overlay different maps from different times onto your location:

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=7&lat=52.8702&lon=-1.7324&layers=168&b=1

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#57

just googled them, should have guessed really being that close to maine road :man_shrugging:

#60

Definitely never been to Tufnell.

DONCASTER! That’s where it was. Sorry Derby for the street name shade.

#61

Yeah, Arthur Road is part of the poet part but I can’t think of a poet with that surname.

I love the old hand painted signs, and the wooden ones, still a ton of wooden ones in the city centre. I really love the mosaic street signs in Old Trafford like on Ayres Road. Such a delight!

#62

I’ve googled 2 and got bored…they’re footballers.

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#63

https://goo.gl/maps/mAUdavf5rXp

Doncaster, my mistake

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