700 STREETS RENAMED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 20, 16 October 1937, Page 15

700 STREETS RENAMED

Landon's Pu/zling Dupjications

Taxi-drivers herp who pridp them: selves npon their completp kpowjfidge igslss'g giegt wt a little di^cpjfc. bp right np-to-the-minute they havp just • had to learn ^jDO npw names for pld • ptreets. For 700 London strpets have taken new nampg gnd jhe inhabitants have been given new addressps. ft is c|aimed tp be the biggest re-christpning pf placp names in thj» history of thp city. But although somp taxi-drivers ,are finding it a little muddling at the momenjfc, tho aim behind tjie 'great townWide fihange is tp mahe things simpler hy fypepipg muph duplication of names Ppstal workers will flnd the re»«*in£ Ihe grpatest bppp, for it will ao longer be necpgsary |n hundreds of casfis to try and flnd where a person hves by a process pf eligaiiiatipn.

tosed mighf go from, sgy, Ac|gia Avenue, Tooting, to Acacia Avenug. Tottpnh'am, and then pa to Acaeia Avenue, Wimbledon, before coming to roost at the right placp. Thejre arp 82 r.enamed streets in Sputhwark, 6Q in both St. Bancras and Lambeth, 54 in Marylebone, 48 in Battersea, and 20 or more in sevep other boroughs. A glance at a map of Londpn shows the mugnitudQ of the problem before tjie Lopdqn County GounciJ jvhen it deeidqd tp simpjify matters a little. The majf shows, among other duplications, 11 Arthur streets and sgyen Arthur roadsj 22 "The Avenues" and 15 Avpmjp roads,* 10 Broadway s, 21 Chayles strpets, 23 Church streets plus seven .Church rows and 22 Church roads, 21 George streets and 65 High streets.