Just been thinking back of some of the weirdest street/ road names I’ve encountered. At the risk of being banned for twelve months I’ve put one English and one French.
This one in St Junien (87) I used to walk along most days.
This one from Great Yarmouth, no photo downloadable unfortunately. It’s called ,
LAUGHING IMAGE CORNER
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JohnA
23 March 2021 10:29
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I’ve deleted the photograph, but there’s a small street in Mondeville, Caen, near the Campanile Hotel, called L’Impasse de l’Europe. Fitting.
I lived near here when I was young and also have a cousin with the family name Prat…he changed it.
I used to have to thru’ Anerley to get to friends who lived in Elmer’s End
Dick place in Edinburgh, Lovers Loan in Dollar and I have friends who live in Crotch Crescent in Oxford.
On the outskirts of Bristol
South of Bristol, a name I particularly like, typical west country
Given my name I was quite tickled to find that I have been honoured in Leicester.
I was less pleased when I realised I was considered a bit of a dead end…
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Unlike the gin-and-Jag lot up in Surrey who changed the name of Pisslake to Peaselake, the yeomen of Dorset are happpy with the original Saxon
SuePJ
23 March 2021 13:00
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Some pretty strange LD names as well round here:
Not sure I would want to live in a house called La Femme Morte.
Meanwhile in Worcestershire (curtsey of Google Maps) they even point the way to a Piddle
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and there are Twatts in Scotland
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Scratchy Bottom - imagine giving this address to officials.
No photo but there is a much maligned sign over the Charente border between Nontron and Angouleme. Ars.
Mark
23 March 2021 16:40
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We’ve got an Ars just north of Aubusson
I do so hope that this is a real street name where Yorkshire Police are:
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