OT - grasp of simple concepts like road names

[charles]

[Steve Walker]

That sounds like here. Flixton Road Connects Flixton to Urmston. Stretford road connects Stretford to Urmston, with a bit at the Stretford end being called Urmston Lane. All good and simple. In fact it gets better. Urmston station is on Station Road, Railway Road runs parallel to the railway. It all goes a bit pear-shaped then - Devon Road is a crescent (actually incorporating part of Parsonage Road) and connects at both ends to Ambleside Road, which goes nowhere. Derwent Road, Grassmere Avenue, etc. One road has a name that is to do with Wales, but many people won't even realise that it is a place name "Trevor Road."

All the result of a '30s fashion of naming new residential roads after places.

Steve Walker.

[Brian Gaff]

Hang on are you saying you have a road with two names for different directions? How peculiar. Brian

[Harry Bloomfield]

A Crescent need not begin, end or return back to a main road. A crescent is just a street or road which is built on a curved plan or which has usually two 45 deg bends in it. Where it begins or ends is immaterial.

[Graeme]

Interesting. Our building causes a certain amount of confusion, having a road along both front and rear, as well as one side. The residential part faces the front and the address takes the front road name. The ex shop faces one side, and takes the side road name and post code, which is not the same as the front post code. Most deliveries (oil, post, couriers etc.) are from the rear road.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , [e-mail] escribió:

In London some years ago, I had to explain to a confused American that no, he and his fat wife really couldn't get to Manchester on the tube.

"But it's only a small country, ain't it?"

[The Natural Philosopher]

All the crescents I have known were simply curved all along.

[Nightjar]

I'm still trying to understand how the Glasgow I knew managed to become a city of culture :-)

[spuorgelgoog]

Oxford Road is one stop past Oxford Circus, maybe?

Owain

[S Viemeister]

I, too, find that difficult to comprehend...

[Graeme]

In message , Nightjar writes

I'm sure you know what Billy Connolly said : The great thing about Glasgow is if there is a nuclear attack, it'll look exactly the same afterwards :-)

[spuorgelgoog]

In that you no longer get your pocket picked at one end and your wallet sold to you at the other?

Owain

[spuorgelgoog]

and the difference between a pend and a vennel?

Owain

[Bob Eager]

Having said that, I just realised (duh!)...

I used to live in Bognor Drive, next to Sandown Drive, Albany Drive ... and now I live in Fleetwood Avenue.

[Capitol]

AIUI the violent gang culture is alive and well and getting worse!

[spuorgelgoog]

Culture: the cultivation of bacteria, tissue cells, etc. in an artificial medium containing nutrients.

Does a scheme with a kebab shop qualify as an artificial medium containing nutrients?

Owain

[The Natural Philosopher]

google 'petri dish'

[Chris Hogg]

Or most of them, for that matter.

But it's kulcha, innit!

[Broadback]

The names that confuse me are calling Roads "Street" "avenue" etc. Obviously no imagination.

[charles]

The main road through our village is simply "The Street". But then the village has been around for over 1000 years, and there was no need for anything complex that long ago. Other villages in Surrey have "The Street" too.