Does it matter if you live in a 'Street'

It does to my mum roses!!

Whilst working in pantomime in Oxford in the 1980's, I happened to attend a party at a house in Crotch Crescent with the late much lamented Dustin Gee. I still haven't stop laughing; I suspect dear Dustin is laughing still.

Don`t know what your mum would make of it Kitty, but we walked down a Squeezy Belly Alley in Cornwall a few years ago! It was extremely narrow.

janeainsworth…hi. My friend lived in Flowery Field Stockport. We used to haul ourselves up to the top of Moorland Road Bridge on our roller skates, then helter-skelter down to the bottom, grabbing the road-sign post at the bottom to stop ourselves (or not).

I lived on Buxton Road then, and later on Dialstone Lane. Have since lived in various towns, but mostly on a Road…Wake Road, London Road, Baslow Road, Chester Road….. We now live on a Rue, but not in England!

Most of the Roads I have lived were certainly not posh.

I also should add that my mum used to say that my friend on Flowery Field was alright till she opened her mouth! So who was the snob?

In Shrewsbury number there is Grope Lane which is also very narrow!

Don"t think it matters one single jot whether it is, , road , street ,close etc. as long as you are happy there, we are most certainly happy in our street.

Hi Frankie
My Dad used to teach at Davenport School, from when it opened in the early 60s I think, before that at Alexandra Park in Edgeley when it was an all-age school.
I used to cycle through Woodsmoor on my way to work at Mr Garlick's dental practice on Buxton Road.
Loved Stockport.

Janea Mr. Garlick was still on Buxton Road not all that many years ago. And Frankie I live in Hazel Grove (on a road)which must be your old stamping ground.

Ann He must be over 80 by now. He was very kind, letting me work in the practice after I had done O Levels, to get some work experience.

Ann...Hazel Grove was indeed very near. Jazz at the Bamboo Club in particular in the 60's and 70's.

Jane…one of my bros went to Davenport School for about a year, prior to half our family moving to New Zealand in 1974.

Funny about dentists. we knew of Mr Garlick's practice, obviously, as he was our nearest. But our mum chose Mr O'Connell near Stockport Grammar School for us. I think she had a 'further away is better' mentality, - I also went to Fylde Lodge High School, instead of Stockport High, which was much nearer.

My dad had Taylors bicycle shop on Great Moor. Yes, am very nostalgic about Stockport, but am sure a lot has changed now.

Incidentally, and to get back on-topic, my friend who lived on Flowery Field had previously lived on Gladstone Street, Great Moor. After her parents failed to get Stockport council to change the name to a Road, they moved to Flowery Field :-)

Ooh, all these familiar local references to parts of Stockport. We must surely have passed each other on the street all those years ago. Another here who has lived in Heaton Moor and Marple, now in South Manchester. Don't forget we have a northwest meetup next week if you're able to come

I always thought that street and road and lane were more 'upmarket' than 'crescent' and 'drive' but then there's 'Blenheim Crescent' .

However the most 'U' of all is simply to be '*****House, followed by the name of the town surely?

I would quite like - Number 1, London (and now I've gone and forgotten who lived/lives there! [embarrassed]

We have a Squeeze Gut Alley near us too

when I'd love to come to one of the NW meet-ups - unfortunately we're getting back from the US on Thursday 13th, so can't make the next one

There is/was a Cat Brain Lane on what was once the northern border of Bristol and South Gloucestershire somewhere near Cribbs Causeway.

We have but one 'Street' in Letchworth Garden City Cross Street and it is in one of most affluent parts of town. just saying

Your mum is priceless Kitty- I am glad you can still laugh about it- the only way to survive...

Digressing here- but I felt in the UK many lanes, cul-de-sacs and closes, and some streets- deserved the attention of the Trades Description Act- as developers give them the names of whatever was DESTROYED in the building process- be it 'Bluebell Lane' 'Fox Covert' 'Badgers' Close', and the like- to make them sound bucolic and attractive

We used to have a factory next door, they made duvets, pillows, etc, wagon loads of feathers were delivered on a regular basis. It was demolished a few years back, to our relief, and an estate of new houses and flats went up, the estate is called The Featherworks.

Flowerofthewest, DH lives in Letchworth Garden City and I had never noticed. She lives in a 'place', really a roughly quadrilateral shape with a continuous road round it and two exits. Possibly better described as a doughnut.

granjura that makes me cross, too. It also makes me cross when they take two attractive words and stick them together so they don't make sense - Barley Orchard? Apple Field? Lavender Close?

We have twice bought houses on new estates. Both were situated in a 'close', one named after the type of house we bought, the other after the surname of the building company's managing director1

We have driven through Virginia today to stay with DS and family.
We passed by Witchesduck Road and Henpeck Road

Frankie your brother might have known Dad - Mr Twiss. He taught science.
When I worked at Mr Garlick's we saw some of his patients when he was on holiday.

We live in a 'Way'. The way to where you may ask - well nowhere, it is a cul-de-sac.