Dear Mary,
You will find in Portsmouth & Southsea a number of similar
co-incidences: developers then were just as unimaginative as today:
instead of a new estate of ticky-tacky boxes on Cherry Road, Oak Close, Elm
Lane, etc., they named their streets of Victorian equivalents after the
current heroes, or current events. You'll find Alma Road and Inkerman Road
and Eupatoria Road in the Stamshaw area - houses built, one would guess,
about two-three years earlier. And ten years or so later, the good citizens
of Portsea got Napier Road and Magdala Road, while a generation earlier, in
Southsea, they got Marmion Road and Waverley Road.
I'm sure there's a Beckham Road somewhere!
Yours,
Alastair Wilson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Seymour" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 12:18 AM
Subject: Lorne Lodge
> I drove down Campbell Road, Southsea this morning and there is definitely
a blue plaque on the wall of no. 4.
>
> BTW since among the neighbouring streets are Outram Road, Inglis Road and
Havelock Road, I must conclude that all are named after heroes of the Indian
Mutiny, especially the Siege of Lucknow.
> Has anyone else noticed this coincidence ?
>
> Mary Seymour
>
>
> Mary Seymour
