CURIOUS STREET NAMES

Hawera Star, Volume L, 7 February 1931, Page 11

CURIOUS STREET NAMES

i ODDITIES. IN BRITAIN. COMPETITION DISCOA'ERIES Curious street names- are far from rare in England. Okl London is, perhaps. richer in them than anywhere else, for nothing could be quainter as a .street name than “Piccadilly, unless it be; Fall Mall, but familiarity lias robbed such of their strangeness I lie name applies, in a measure, to Petty Gary in Cambridge and Carfax in Cambridge- and Carfax in Oxford. I A competition upon the subject or i queer street names was recently conducted by the “Observer.” Tt revealed that the North of England is particularly well endowed with oddities of this 'kind. If any one stands out in surprisingness from the rest, it, is Upper Whiskers-, which is found in North qwr am, near Halifax. But The Slonlcs, which- is credited to Shotley Bridge, County Durham, must come very near to being the last word m nomenclature. Neweastle-on-Tyne- is. possessed oi Pudsing Chare, Two Ball Luiinou, and Darn Crook; and Bolton of Sticli-ini-lane, Salt Pie-yard, and Top o' the’ Cow. Hull’s Land of Green Ginger has evidently a wide celebrity, and so have Oldham’s Mumps and Norwich is Tombland. Bradford’s D-ole Street sounds an invidious address in present circumstances. Hexham has a Priestpopple. and Bridgnorth a Paw Pudding-hill. Glasgow, in addition to the wellknown Cowcaddens Street and Goosedubs, also boasts a Spoutsmouth and a i Butterbiggius Bond, while Dundee has I a Peep o’. Day Lane. In Beverley will be found Poll Gavel, I and in Leeds Obededuni Terrace- and | The Calls. York suggests y. derogatory j turn, with its Bad Bargain Lane and I Mucky I’eg Lane—in contrast to Salu- | lirious Place, Si. Ives. Plymouth's \ Penny-eum-quick appears to he as ce.leI I»rated as Leicester's .Holy Bones Street. Other sou then i curiosities are Manamead. Plymouth ; Pitch and Pay lame, (Bristol; Boek-n-Nore Road, Hastings; land Benny Farthing Street- and Wainj a-!ong Bi-jad, Salisbury. i