We were looking through some forms that came in the office yesterday and someone gave their work address as being in a place called 'Salubrious Passage'. I shit you not. And it wasn't a sex worker, either. Any more?
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waylandsmithy
offlineMemberScroat, that's next to the old crayon factory, isn't it?
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There's a Willcox Close near us. I always mentally add a rising intonation as I walk past it.
And, famously, there was a Gropecunt Lane in London and many other towns and cities in the Middle Ages, where one could grope cunts for coin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane
See also Tickle Cock Bridge
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John Ffitch-Rucker
offlineMemberLincolnshire has some curios; I know of ‘Labour-in-vain’ Drove near Coningsby and Poverty Lane near Louth, and Horncastle has a street called ‘The Wong’. This is nothing to do with Chinese people; ‘wong’ is an old Norse word for pasture, apparently. Hastings has a ‘Penistone Road’ which always raises a smirk- the houses are all semis. I also remember hearing about a police station on ‘Letsby Avenue,’ but suspect this to be apocryphal.
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thisisall1word
offlineMemberWas there any truth to the rumour that a gropecunt lane in the city of london was renamed hugpiersmorgan street?
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dvo4fun
offlineMemberTranscontinental contribution. In Lesotho's (particularly) mountainous region there is a sweeping section of modern road, simply signposted 'God Help Us Pass'
Up until now I've thought it referred to a bygone especially dangerous and precarious stretch of carriageway. But now I come to write it down I realise it could be a reference to slow moving caravans or heavy goods vehicles.
Time for a coffee I think
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waylandsmithy
offlineMemberIn Nice, there's a 'Rue Pie Scoffier'. I think it's twinned with Wigan.
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beau-jolly
offlineMemberI may have misunderstood an advert as a road sign but I'm sure the seedy hotel in Paris was on Rue de Ladies.
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberWe have two Dick Streets within 4 miles of each other.
Also I once stayed in an hotel in Torquay in an area called "Daddy's Hole".
So like Fawlty Towers, I kept looking for Manuel.
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John Ffitch-Rucker
offlineMemberRikkor’s example reminds me; near Uckfield, Sussex, signs indicating the River Uck are cut away to stop vandals expressing their creativity. The village of Hucking in Kent has a similar problem, and there used to be a sign on the dual carriageway that read ‘No Hucking U-turn’.
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberIn Scotland "Wynd" is a small lane, so we are fortunate in Dundee to have - "Butt's Wynd", "Smellie's Lane" and "Smellie's Wynd", and before the area was regenerated, "Fishgutter's Wynd".
It's easy to spot the tourists, they're the ones taking pictures of street names.
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beau-jolly
offlineMemberCarrying on the theme of tampered signs: The famous gay area of manchester is Canal Street. I don't think I've ever seen the sign without the initial letters blacked out. ( I used to do some consultancy for a number of bars there - Honest)
There is an estate agent in Banbury caller Ankers. They have to get the whitewash out every Monday morning.
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