Oddly named places, streets, lanes, and roads

[caterina]

I live in Yorkshire i wonder what funny names of the above you have in Liverpool i have lots of rellies in Liverpool. My one is Tom Cat Lane..


Caterina

[caterina]

Forgot to say any photo,s of them would be real good too.


Thanks Caterina..

There's no Tom Cat Lane in Liverpool.

[caterina]

No Phillip i was giving an example of what is in Yorkshire sorry i should have made this clear..


Caterina

[Max]

In Hale theres Cocklaide Lane.

[caterina]

No none of them i know of We have Dog and Duck Lane. Sow Hill..

Caterina..

[phredd]

"EVERY STREET"

[caterina]

Come on phredd you can do better than this ..

Caterina.

[phredd]

Well I am trying, ("very" I hear you say)
The street is off West Derby road.

Phredd

ps = we do have a Doe's Lane in L26 (Wirral).

[ChrisGeorge]

Liverpool's Whitechapel, before being renamed after the district in the East End of London, used to be known as Frog Lane.

[lindylou]

Pighue lane. We pronounce it 'Piggy lane'

[steveb]

Not really strange but, Lime Kiln Lane, how about areas, Little Bongs

There's Cockle Dick's Lane in Southport and Cockburn Street here in the Dingle (pronounced Co-burn).
The Elms and Monkswell Street are also in the Dingle.
Providence Buildings and Industrious Terrace used to be in the Dingle, but they've gone now.
Yellow House Lane in Southport.
Zig Zag Road in Wallasey.

[lottie]

Three Butt Lane (off Queens Drive)

[caterina]

You are doing well the names of streets is always interesting and Chris i love The Frog Lane. We have a Lime Kiln Lane.Some of the names go back along time in history.

Caterina..

[shytalk]

Wambo Lane in Gateacre is one I remember from when I was a kid.

I have never heard Cockburn St. pronounces as Coburn, when did this start?

[Ged]

Not strange sounding but I wonder why North Dingle is in Kirkdale and Litherland Alley was off Canning place?

[ChrisGeorge]

Originally Posted by shytalk

Wambo Lane in Gateacre is one I remember from when I was a kid.

I have never heard Cockburn St. pronounces as Coburn, when did this start?

Co-burn would be the proper pronunciation since the street is named for Admiral Sir George Cockburn, one of the guys I have written about since he was one of the top commanders of the British war effort in the Chesapeake Bay and later Lord of the Admiralty. I can't speak though to how Scousers pronounce it.

There was an Everton forward in the 1966 cup final winning team though whose name named Mike Trebilcock but the pronunciation in southwest England, where I believe he was from, was Trebilco.

By the way we have here in Baltimore a Thames St. which of course is pronounced "Thh-aymes" in the American manner not "Tems" as in the UK pronunciation and my Mum lives in a senior high rise known as Westminster House which the locals insist on pronouncing "Westminister House"!

Chris

[shytalk]

I wasn't arguing about the correct pronunciation, it is just that in my years in the taxi trade, '64-'82 I have never heard it pronounced that way. people who lived there and asked for it pronounced it as it looked, I knew 2 people who lived in Bowood St. off Cockburn and they always said it that way. I realise that a lot of things have changed in the last 26 years since I left, probably the estate agent changed it, just like the phoney changing of the post codes and area names.
Beaulieu is the strangest pronunciation sounding like Bewley.

[ChrisGeorge]

Dungeon Lane is an interesting name, out Speke and Hale way. The sandbank out in the Mersey is called Dungeon Bank. Mike Royden's Local History Pages indicate that the Dungeon got its name from the Dungeon saltworks in the area.

Chris