willit

"Lambeth Double Oblique"

PatrickLondon

Oho, someone has been watching and learning on the QT, I see. Little pitchers, and all that...

PalenQ

JanisJ - twas not verbatimly lifted but paraphrased and thus the typo - you have of course accused me on multiple occasions of ONLY cutting and pasting - a totally bogus charge that you continually repeat, and, which i NEVER do and like in this case, based on another source, i always give credit to the source to the paraphrasing.

Are you going to meet me at the Big Giant for coffee (or something stronger at CW's mum's house) - can't remember the name of the Giant but do know why he is big.

Cheers

PS - No Chipping in this Tube station book

PalenQ

REGENT'S PARK
(paraphrased from source credited at start)
'once Marylebone park - it was stolen from the people by the Crown in 1811 and then John Nash laid it out from scratch for the Prince Regent and it was named for the PR- Nash also built Regent Street as part of the 'Royal Mile' linking the park and the Prince's house in St James's.

PalenQ

FULHAM BROADWAY - <Foul Town or Fowl Town>?

It seems it could be that the Tube station nearest the Chelsea football club's stadium (i believe, janis correct me if wrong) - that its name could once have meant Foul Town!

Manor of Fulanham recorded by 691 - 'much specualtion of name's origina'

1- ' Foul-town because of muddy stretch of Thames it's on or 2- fowl-ham - venue of water fowl'

Well at least that was the speculation for eons but NO - book says both those explanations can be discounted and that 'Fulham is derived from a personal name -Fulla- and the Oe 'HAMM' a water meadow - like the low-lying bend of the Thames here. 'The Meadow where Fulla lives' - recorded as Fulham by 1533

Station opened as Walham Green 1880 - re-named as Fulham Broadway 1952.

stokebailey

Pal, I think it's all right to skip the bibliography. People just like to give you the business.

re: Mornington Crescent. No one born outside a 500 mile radius is ever likely to reach highest echelons.

PalenQ

LEICESTER SQUARE

Easy one - named after 2nd Earl of Leicester who built his London residence here - early plans for the station show Cranbourn Street as a proposed name before settling on Leicester Square.

Merseyheart

ttt

PalenQ

DOLLIS HILL a k a DOLLY'S HILL

'known as Daleson Hill in 1593 and later as Dolly's Hill (origin unknown) but perhaps after a manor nearby. Station opened as Dollis Hill in 1909

Q- have no idea on what Dollis Hill station area is like? Worth going to? Thanks

Cholmondley_Warner

It's horrible. It's just down the road from willesden and has no redeeming features whatsoever.

There's nothing there - just a pub/hostel for backpackers.

CW - Spent a couple of unhappy months in an office in Dollis Hill and hated every minute of it.

PalenQ

CALEDONIAN ROAD

Has to have something to do with Scotland, right?

Yup - named for Caledonian Road, which was constructed in early 1800s and got its name for the Caledonian Asylum for Scottish kids (to get the out of the insanity of Scotland i guess).

Barnsbury was batted about for the station's name when opened in 1906 but it opened as Caledonian Road.

PatrickLondon

Tut tut. There's more than one sort of asylum, you know: the Royal Caledonian Asylum was established &quot;for the relief of the children of soldiers, sailors and mariners, natives of Scotland, who have died or been disabled in the service of their country; and the children of indigent Scotch parents residing in London, not entitled to parochial relief.&quot; In those days, you could only expect public help from the parish you belonged to, and plenty of parish Poor Law Guardians, esepcially in the big cities, went to great lengths to make sure people were made to rely on any possible connection with any <i>other</i> parish. So Scottish children orphaned or in poverty in London might well need such a charitable institution.

PalenQ

GREEN PARK

Fairly simple, yeh - it's a park that is green. Bingo!

'the name seems to have derived from the grass that grew all around'

stokebailey

Still waiting for Burnt Oak. Can't hold out much longer. Throw in Hackney Wick while you're at it, please.

PalenQ

EARL'S COURT

I would think this came from some Earl who held court here?

Well let's see the real story:

Well yeh - 'the De Vere family were granted the Manor of Kensington which at one time had a court hourse.' then the head of the family became the Earl of Oxford - 'hence the name Earl's Court'. Court building demolished in 1886 - today the site is the Barkston and Bramham Gardens.

Station opened in 1871

Cholmondley_Warner

Throw in Hackney Wick while you're at it, please.&gt;&gt;&gt;

Do you really want Pal's Hackney Wick?

Be careful what you wish for.

PalenQ

Alas no Tube station in Hackney area

Hackney of course gave its name to Hackney cabs and the hackneyed word hackneyed.

Hackney would be a good name for much of London's hackneyed east end i believe.

stokebailey

You're right, CW: that version doesn't hack it. Will have to make up my own.

Also had to make up my own for Burnt Oak. It involves Druids and lonely windswept hilltops.

PatrickLondon

Can it be that CW has mixed up his Hackney with his Hampton? Surely not.

Cholmondley_Warner

Both hackney wick and hampton wick are perfectly cromulent slang.

There's a Sammy Hagar album called &quot;Standing Hampton&quot; that always raises a smile.