Heartland

Having just watched a programme on the history of Venice that had a place called the Eternal Square, or somesuch it got me thinking (of course) that nowhere has great street names anymore. There's even a Chlorine Avenue in Belfast...At the risk of taking blandness to a new level I'm sure there's worse....

There were some great street names in the town I grew up in - specifically Mafeking Terrace, named for Boer War siege.

That being said, the people who planned the place where I live these days ran out of imagination and decided that all the streets and avenues should be numbered, with a few exceptions - talk about bland!

http://www.lier.tk/index.php?nr=65

The 'wee shirt sleeve' street in Lier, Belgium is full of WIN.

IZ.

TA DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

I wanna write that on an envelope!!!

Know anyone who lives there?

Pista wrote:I wanna write that on an envelope!!!

Know anyone who lives there?

Well, it's in York just up the road from Fibbers, so it's basically shops BUT I'm sure I can find someone who knows someone. What the hell, just write it on an envelope anyway! Knock yerself out

There's a Gagarin Way near me. That's in Scotland.

I used to live near a Tightsqueeze Way/Street/Avenue/Something. The story goes that the street used to be so narrow that carriages had a hard time squeezing through. I love neat little local history references like that.

In a town I lived in in rural Mississippi, there was a Fuhrer Street, no lie. Dunno how it came to be, though.

I like the Rue de la Grande Truanderie-Big Swindle street-in Paris.It's close by Little Swindle street.

I rather like 'Rue de la Grande Rue' (in Guernsey.) Literally: Road of the Big Road.

And those Goffs among us must surely remember Arguments Yard in Whitby.

Does Wankling Road win any prizes?

And then there is World's End Close in Edinburgh, though I've always liked to read it as a warning rather than a street name.

Wild Man's Bridge, Lanarkshire it's just down the road from Headless Cross

markfiend wrote:Gropecunt Lane

theres always someone to lower the tone..............


there is a very ankh morporkian swing pump lane in whitehaven

I lived near Maggieknockater , it was close to Dallas............the original Dallas that is

and a "seldom seen"

nigel d wrote:

markfiend wrote:Gropecunt Lane

theres always someone to lower the tone..............

...and it's frequently me

You all are killing me

I have a curious street name just around the corner here in Munich, Germany:

Lueg ins Land - Lie into the country

Then there is the street "Durchschnitt" in Hamburg. "Average".

A basement in that street was home to the influential record shop "Unterm Durchschnitt" (Below Average) by the unique Mr. Uli Rehberg, publisher of early Throbbing Gristle, SPK and Laibach stuff (Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien).

there's a town called 'Spunky puddle' in USA,apparently

Crotch Crescent in Marston sounds intresting
might even think of relocating
I turned down a flat once cos the address was Cumming Drive..

There is a Decoy road in one of the little villages on the way to Great Yarmough from here. Always makes me smile.

Plus in Norwich there is Horns lane \m/

Oh please - don't even try...



Not far from me, as it happens...

Pffft. Get a load of this.



And they even have a diving club! http://www.muffdivingclub.ie/

Ah Muff! It's about 15 minutes from me. Ahem.