Does it matter if you live in a 'Street'

Must have been so cross I got the letters mixed up!

I hate the loo seats being left up too - I keep saying to people, 'Did you not see that science programme where they showed all the germs being shot all over the bathroom when the loo was flushed?'. Of course, they did not. My mother trained us to put them down. Someone re-trained one of my sisters, it would appear, and she drives me mad when she comes to stay.

I live in Close but have never given it a thought till reading this.

I have now gone up in the world.

Thank you

A loanen (country road), avenue, way, drive and now heights. None posh.

The cottage we lived in in Cornwall was right on the outskirts of the village, up a nameless lane which branched off a nameless road.

Now we live on an ex council estate. The council was obviously being very trendy when they named the roads because they just used a name. There are no streets, roads or avenues, you just get Melrose, Derwent or Hillberry. Some people find it quite difficult to grasp when you're trying to give them the address. They keep waiting for more!

Re loo seats being left up...it is even worse with those slow closing ones. Wait until you absolutely have to go, then hop about waiting for the #*#! loo seat to graciously lower itself. Wrench it down in a fury and you risk breaking it. And all because some men CBA to lower the thing when they've finished. I remember that programme janerowena, what a pity my DH won't believe me

I dislike the English use of the word Close to mean a cul de sac. Where I was btought up in Scotland a close was a narrow alleyway or snicket. Nothing like a cathedral close either! People are such snobs sometimes " Lodge" "the Old Rectory/School/Dairy/Post Office" etc. Never "the Old Petrol Station" though. We used to live in an old cottage overlooking our village gteen simply called The ***. The people who bought it seem to have "changed" its name as they give their address as " ***Farmhouse"

There's a deathly hush in the close tonight!
(Old git next door's away)

Some companies will not accept the fact you do not have a street or road, so I have had to have the A* for my road name, but saying that I have also had mail delivered to House name followed by the post code.

That should of been the A *

It will only accept 1 * for the road number

There is a house in Wales called Y Newydd (The New) Farmhouse only the words "The new" are written in Welsh but "Farmhouse" is in English. very strange.

Very odd! Why not Y Ffermdy Newydd?

Perhaps he was Welsh and she was English.

I live on a "Walk" which doesn't seem to be all that common but,to me,it doesn't matter what someone's address is-names can be very misleading.I think a lot of street and area names have come from ancient words or places that were once there.We have a Windmill Lane nearby,no windmill in sight,though probably used to be one nearby.

Ooh oznan I was brought up in a house in a Windmill Lane ! Live in an avenue now.

Is "Highway" posh? Our address is on a Highway in New Zealand. Here it seems that location rather than street address is important to people who think it matters. I couldn't care less!! Must add though, that I was born in London (in a house, in a bedroom) in a Grove. Certainly not a posh address now!

In archaic English a close was an enclosed field. It's sometimes seen in old deeds.

This is really strange I ve never ever considered a street being a 'lower' name how ridiculous, what is this a 'town caste system' LOL I live in a 'road' and never ever considered it to be anything other than that ...a road Thinking back to most of my addresses even those overseas have been roads One son overseas lives on a road one daughter lives on a road and one daughter who lives on an estate lives in ......Meadows hers is the smallest house haha

DD lives in a Place. It was built as an estate of council houses, although many are now privately owned, but nobody visiting it could fail to notice its origins. DS lives in an avenue, a road off a major thoroughfare that has pleasant 1930's semis on both sides, much like millions of others all over the country. We live on a Causeway; because the causeway, a raised footpath, runs for half a mile in front of our houses.

I cannot see anything special about a close. We have lived in one twice. The first close we lived in consisted entirely of terraced houses, later we lived in one with larger detached houses. It just means a dead-end road and is usually found on post-1960 housing estates.

Road, Street, Close, Walk...........whatever - I don't think anyone is going to top the poshest address that our Phoenix has lived in.

Well what about the queen who lives in Buckingham Place ? What does that say about her?

Bloody a

I always fancied Boulevard or Plaza. Or perhaps 'The' something or other. Anything for a bit of pretension, snobbery or quaintness. I read somewhere that some of London's old street names were so rude and crude that they were changed in Victorian times to sound more respectable.

"Courts" in old industrial areas often used to be very run down slum properties.

www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol/visit/galleries/peoples/court-housing.aspx

Sorry folks!

I have lived in all the Places, Roads , Streets, Gardens, Closes, Lanes ,Drives , and never given this a thought. As others have said , what about Downing Street? It can't really be a snob factor thing?I live in a Close at the moment, but that doesn't mean a thing.