Street names on your current commute...

[GrumpyGregry]

Anglesey directions.

Go past where jones the post used to live and turn right at Harry Edwards house then half a mile the farm is by where the chapel used to be.

Harry Edwards Pantycelin or Harri Edwards Maesmawr?

Would be the Cardi's question!

 

[Drago]

Biggs likes nothing more than a ride up Cleo Lane.

 

[Hitchington]

Vesta Road - makes me think of the exotic meals in a box from the 1970s. I never had one, they were just for my mum. She was very sophisticated. Me and my dad had to make do with liver and boiled spuds.
Vulcan Road - makes me think of everyone's favourite Vulcan, Mr Spock (RIP)
Friendly Street - the final Road just before I get to work, puts a smile on my face

 

[theclaud]

If on the mtb, I sometimes take a nifty little shortcut called Prospect Terrace, which always reminds of Danny Kaye failing to get Potato Salad for Virginia Mayo...

 

[slowmotion]

West London seems to be awash with street names from the Boer War. I suppose the streets were developed in that era.

 

[midlife]

All a bit of a blur when I'm cycling....

Park life?

Shaun

 

[vernon]

West London seems to be awash with street names from the Boer War. I suppose the streets were developed in that era.

Omdurman Street/Road and Inkerman Street/Road commemorate the Crimean war.

 

[slowmotion]

One of my locals...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloemfontein#Second_Anglo-Boer_War.2FSouth_African_War

Not a million miles from the old QPR ground.

 

[vernon]

And if one is not a creepers fan? Or perhaps wishes to mail you something?

My house?

 

[RedRider]

There's a few -hills, -rises and -banks on my new commute but Stillness Rd makes me think of a ripple paused whilst Bellenden is a time for self-reflection.

 

[Old jon]

If this link is true, the Cardigans were part of the Brudenell family and they owned most of Headingley.

Thank you for that, it is something I did not know. The book 'The Reason Why' by Cecil Woodham Smith was my only source of information about these people, I reckon my memory of it may be limited.

 

[Dirk]

Bastards Lane in Torrington (Google it) makes me think of quite a number of people every time I go down it.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Vesta Road - makes me think of the exotic meals in a box from the 1970s. I never had one, they were just for my mum. She was very sophisticated. Me and my dad had to make do with liver and boiled spuds.
Vulcan Road - makes me think of everyone's favourite Vulcan, Mr Spock (RIP)
Friendly Street - the final Road just before I get to work, puts a smile on my face

My children refuse to accept there was a time when you could not walk into a supermarket and buy all the fresh ingredients needed to make a good Indian/Thai curry or Paella, or Chicken Chow Mein from scratch, and when ground coffee was an exotic luxury that ordinary people might drink once a year, and bottled water was something you found only in the saloon bar of pubs, &c.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

West London seems to be awash with street names from the Boer War. I suppose the streets were developed in that era.

My great-grandfather ran his own building company and built whole streets in pit villages in Co. Durham. Up until the Boer War these streets were generally named after the pit owners wife and kids, as were the pits themselves. Then came a whole raft of Bloemfontein Terrace and Makefing Row &c.

My great-grandfather ran his own building company and built whole streets in pit villages in Co. Durham. They nearly all ended up condemned as unfit or were in Category D villlages and sfaik only two streets he built are still standing.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Omdurman Street/Road and Inkerman Street/Road commemorate the Crimean war.

I always thought Omdurman was in respect of the Battle of Omdurman, Sudan in 1898?