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DavebytheSea
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Jude
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or a maligner of maligering..
Certain places have silly names too - Like Upper Tooting - or Lower Piddington! Gloucestershire is great for daft names (but not as good as Wales!!!)
Stroud - there are 4 Strouds in the UK.
Stonehouse - there are 3 in the UK
And why is Stonehouse called Stonehouse??? There is no HOUSE named Stonehouse..... it may well be that this used to be a quarry, most of the clay being made into bricks... and possible Brickhouse may not have appealed as much!
Certain places have silly names too - Like Upper Tooting - or Lower Piddington! Gloucestershire is great for daft names (but not as good as Wales!!!)
Stroud - there are 4 Strouds in the UK.
Stonehouse - there are 3 in the UK
And why is Stonehouse called Stonehouse??? There is no HOUSE named Stonehouse..... it may well be that this used to be a quarry, most of the clay being made into bricks... and possible Brickhouse may not have appealed as much!
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cj
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I'm rather fond of the Witterings in Sussex. I suspect that some of our forum friends may reside there ...
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cj
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The less said about your private goings on, the better, DBTS. Does your good lady know about this behaviour?DavebytheSea wrote:I knew someone who liked being tied to the bedposts.
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DavebytheSea
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eloisec
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you might enjoy this site of funny place names
http://philbrodieband.com/jokes-jokes_town_names.htm
http://philbrodieband.com/jokes-jokes_town_names.htm
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And Bec (as in Tooting Bec) comes from the French abbot who owned the land. There is Becmead Avenue in Streatham and other Bec things.eloisec wrote:Tooting comes from the original settlement founded by the 'Tota' people in the 5th century.
how on earth do I know that?! must have read too much local history!
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DBTS - as per norm - you lower the tone! Try to think of the History about Flushing - is it anything to do with all the sewerage that is/was FLUSHED out to sea from there?DavebytheSea wrote:I knew someone who liked being tied to the bedposts.Euterpe13 wrote:my Mother's favourite is/are the Wallops
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DavebytheSea
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Well it was a problem certainly. Then just two years ago they managed to bore a tunnel under the river to Falmouth which now receives our sewage. Clever stuff as the tunnel was quite long (over half a mile) and I think it was all done by a horizontal bore. (... and I am not referring to any inebriated forum member).
Reverting, however, to the topic ....
You are right, Jude - Flushing is a curious name. Oliver (carrying the village school's standard at a do in Truro when Brenda and Pips went to the cathedral) was approached by Philip who asked "Was there a Saint Flushing, then? Haw, haw,haw." He (Oliver) has never quite forgiven Philip or forgotten the episode but managed to reply "No, the name was given by the Dutch when they settled in the village in the 17th century"
In fact it's never struck me as being quite that simple. Originally, the settlement was known as Nan Kersey - the village of the winding valley - and was certainly renamed after the Dutch settlement when they enlarged and extended the village with the wonderful slate-hung houses that are so much of a feature of the village today. But if, as supposed, the Dutch came from Flushing in Holland, surely they would have called it Vlissingen which is their name for Flushing.
To further confuse the issue, the Sailing Club uses the "V" for Vlissingen as its emblem while the old name is still remembered in Kersey Road which rises "up the Kersey" behind the village. The Nankersey Choir of some 60 members - one of the best of the Cornish Male Choirs - is still based in the village and rehearses every Monday evening.
http://www.nankersey-choir.co.uk/
The history section has a picture of a very youthful DBTS holding the baton circa 1963 (2nd pic)
Reverting, however, to the topic ....
You are right, Jude - Flushing is a curious name. Oliver (carrying the village school's standard at a do in Truro when Brenda and Pips went to the cathedral) was approached by Philip who asked "Was there a Saint Flushing, then? Haw, haw,haw." He (Oliver) has never quite forgiven Philip or forgotten the episode but managed to reply "No, the name was given by the Dutch when they settled in the village in the 17th century"
In fact it's never struck me as being quite that simple. Originally, the settlement was known as Nan Kersey - the village of the winding valley - and was certainly renamed after the Dutch settlement when they enlarged and extended the village with the wonderful slate-hung houses that are so much of a feature of the village today. But if, as supposed, the Dutch came from Flushing in Holland, surely they would have called it Vlissingen which is their name for Flushing.
To further confuse the issue, the Sailing Club uses the "V" for Vlissingen as its emblem while the old name is still remembered in Kersey Road which rises "up the Kersey" behind the village. The Nankersey Choir of some 60 members - one of the best of the Cornish Male Choirs - is still based in the village and rehearses every Monday evening.
http://www.nankersey-choir.co.uk/
The history section has a picture of a very youthful DBTS holding the baton circa 1963 (2nd pic)
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