However, recently it seems to have spun itself onto a new, quite preposterous, level. Just up the road they have erected a series of signs pointing towards new housing developments. Granted, Belgrave Court is in the Dorchester Road mould. Chequers might be if it referred to the Prime Minister's country residence, but you can't be sure today. But Intrigue : what is all that about? The intrigue is why anyone would want to live in such a place. There is another sign in Huddersfield pointing towards a big mill conversion which is called "Equilibrium". In Mirfield there is a similar development called "Fusion".I am starting a new campaign for a return to good, old-fashioned street names. Names like Brick and Tile Terrace (just down the road in Brighouse), Bog Lane (that's in Leeds), Bonegate Road (Huddersfield) and Slippery Ford Lane (Bradford). And as our house backs onto the local crematorium, in future people can contact me by writing to 3, Crematorium Gardens, Huddersfield.
Round us water is good. So all the new estates that have turned what used to be our beautiful rural canal into a city drain are Waterside, Waterways, and Whatabloodysillyname for an estate whose main claim to scenic beauty is a view of our canal boat. (Okay, I made that one up.)
ReplyDeleteYes, we are quite good on islands here, even though we are sixty miles or so from the sea. There is a new converted mill down the road located between the canal and the river which has somehow become Mill Royd Island.
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