I was putting some seeds into envelopes today to send off as swaps with members here and once again it struck me how many folk have garden-related words in their addresses. I don't want to give anything away but addresses over the last few months have included included the words heather, aspen, pines, cedars, cherry, hedgerow, hill, heath, park and wood to name just a few. And I have 'Acacia' in my address. ;D
So if I visited a site for bookworms for instance, and perhaps they swapped paperbacks, do you think they'd all have suitable addresses too? ;)
G x
Hmmm.... I have a 'field' in my street name. :) Spooky!
Alas, none of the artists I know have arty addresses.
Tina.
DITO I HAVE A FIELD IN MY STREET NAME ;-)
My house name is very rural and I had 'wood' in my maiden name
My last three addresses have had wood, wood and park in them and in Germany I lived in Holzhausenstrasse - Holz being wood as well. Yes, weird :).
Tricia
We have hill.
We have Bluebell in our address
ours is porlock, as in the hill
Where I live all the roads are named after trees, but as it's a 'garden suburb' that was no great leap of the imagination :-\
;D ;D we have an elm. also had a whole plantation once :P ;D...now that is showing off. ;)
but so few vegetable street names :'(
pumpkin parade, cabbage crescent, tomato terrace, asparagus avenue perhaps ::)
OK I'll get me hat and coat and gloves :P
I knew this thread would get the nutters out. ;D :P Lettuce Lane, Radish Road......
G x
Kolrabi Close?...........oh trust you SS ;D ;D ;D
There are a few "allotment" lanes but they usually go back to Parliamentary enclosures... in Northern cities a "Peartree" area is quite common... they were fashionable to plant in the later 18thCentury and on their own roots made huge trees which stood out above the victorian terrace sprawl. Derby also has a dairyhouse road from when cattle were stalled inside cities to provide milk...
;D
Well try this....my surname before I remarried had 'Garden' in it with slightly different spelling but that was how it was pronounced and then I used to live in 'Gardener's Walk' now my street is another plant related name ending in 'Gardens'. When i was a child my parents had a farm called 'Rosehill', they later moved to a Woodville Street. My middle name is a plant. I also lived in a small place called something Forest. I think I've covered them all. No vegetables though.
How about a Parsley Place, Avocado Avenue, Cabbage Crescent, Lettuce Lane.
Georgie You know I will be sowing your seeds in the Grounds of my address ;D
Beet Route? ;)
Tina.
ROFL Tina, nice one! ;D
G x
When our local school (Infants) was the village school it was on cabbage square, since changed to a more prosaic Browning Street.
;D
No plants in my address - street name is a castle in Kent but my Mum's maiden names were Plant and Webb so two garden references there. My paternal grandmother's name was Woodcock so bird of the fields there.
???
Grew up in a village called Paddock Wood
Now live in a street with the same name as a serial killer...
Not sure what that proves!
;)
Live in a wood, and our last house was called Primrose Cottage.
I live in a park. Under some newspaper on the bench.
Jools Holland did a short TV series called Beat Route - it was AGES ago, but the couple I saw were rather good. Think they were all looking at the origins/development of modern music.
I have never lived anywhere that didn't have Farm in the address. I was born in a Farm Cottage, then I lived on a Farm, then I moved to the suburbs and the name of the estate I live on is Farm! ... ta dah!! And my office is at Parklands ...
I live in Camden Town, but if I moved across the road to the posh houses, I'd be a resident of Regent's Park.
I don't have, nor have I ever had, any connection with gardening, plants, trees or any other horticultural reference in my name or address.
...ah, that explains a lot.
Hey Amazin, you're back! ;D I've missed you. Hope all's well and that you have just been too busy on your new lottie to post. Have you eaten at EL Parador yet?
G x
my address includes
Greenfield
Glasgow (which means 'dear green place')
I grew up in a Field, now live in a road with Land in it and work in a Wood.
;D ;D
moonbells
Just looked up the defininition of fawcett apparently it comes out russain for fawn or fawning so nature linked I suppose.
Previous address was greenside which certainly has a connection.
Then my future address will be greentop andgardens
Certainly some connection somewhere!
I have 2 in my street name! Fir (as in the conifer) and Tree (self explanatory).
Weird eh?
Funny thing is conifers are my least favorite group of plants.......Hmm!
On the coincidence bit - a lot of new housing developments have rural, gardening etc names becaust that is what the developers ploughed up to buld there in the first place. New developements near to me go by names such as Orchard Estate, Cherry Meadows (tis the meadow bit that is relevant here - the village it is near is called Cherry Willingham) etc. Tis probably true about the older ones too.
And how about the roads for our allotments? Mine has a Park in the name. :) Just thought of that (I'm a bit bored ;))
Tina.
Quote from: Heldi on November 06, 2006, 09:29:55
I live in a park. Under some newspaper on the bench.
Newspaper = made from sustainable source = trees?
Park bench = ditto?
I'm bored as well....
;D
grew up in a Weir, work in a Marshgate.
that's about as close to nature as my addresses get - new road, north road, eleanor road...
Mmmm, maybe explains my steep learning curve! ;D
Quote from: Amazin on November 06, 2006, 19:02:10
I live in Camden Town, but if I moved across the road to the posh houses, I'd be a resident of Regent's Park.
I don't have, nor have I ever had, any connection with gardening, plants, trees or any other horticultural reference in my name or address.
HI, This is lilacsplash's OH, I've spent many a happy night in the Dublin Castle watching the punk, ska and blues bands. Do you know it...? Now Regents Park, there's posh! now I live in Cornwall and I'm allotment widower. She only drags me down there when there's heavy work to be done ;D As a Londoner I loved living in London, but I love Cornwall even more now
Whereabouts are you? I used to live near St. Austell.
i have 'land' in mine
Used to live at Rose Cottage in Rose Lane
Rob, we're up the top - Callington.
Lilacsplash's OH,
Yup, I know the Dublin Castle very well - it's practically at the end of the street! And I once worked a summer season in Tintagel.
Grew up in Nursery Close then moved to Sunny Road used to live in Wood Green ;) ;)
Just as a postscript to my 'entry', here are relevant stret names for my parents. Dad grew up in Newbury (sp?) Gardens and Blount Avenue (ok so 1 out of 2 aint bad) and ISNT a gardener (parents with only a casual interest in gardening). Mum grew up in 'Baring Road' (no obvious gardeing connection) and is a gardener. Her father was also a very keen gardener.
Make what you will of that.
I was just doing a search and this old thread popped up. Would newer posters like to add to it? :)
G x
there's a similar thing about people ending up doing jobs that sound like their name. It's called Nominative Determinism. It was popularised by New Scientist. Itr started off when someone noticed an article in the British Journal of Urology (vol 49, pp 173-176, 1977) - about INCONTINENCE by J. W. Splatt and D. Weedon. ;D
My maiden name is PLANT, middle name Rosemary so I was a Rose Plant but was called at school 'little weed' which I hated.
When i was a teenager i used to go to a dentist called Mr Gummer.......bit worrying that one!
we have a family round here that go round all the houses selling books. What's their name?? oh yes, Mr and Mrs Cyclopaediasalesman and the daughter Doreen
i'll get me coat
I liked that Catholic Archbishop - Cardinal Sin
we have albert in our road name,same as our local pub.....used to live in parkfield though,much more gardenesque! have called the new kitten lotie though,does that count?
I've had a beech and a broom.
I come from a musical family, even the sowing machine was a .................
SINGER. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :-X
The chief sanitary inspector in Norwich, where I used to live, was called Mr Smellie.
I don't suppose Bob Flowerdew could have become anything other than a gardener or a gay Hobbit. tho he was a male model and other strange stuff before
I know of a Miss Seymour who came to my attention when I saw some listening books for the blind outside her door. :o
Hello
My road name (Spinney) means a small thicket,wood or copse which is true as i have the greenlanes outside my door which is a nice walk for the doggies.
Cheers
Brogusblue