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Curious matter. My favourite pub name is The Silent Woman with the pic of a beheaded woman. The guy who was my first-year English tutor at Auckland Univ in 1955 became a friend, Bill Pearson. He lived an unusual life, and his biographer found that when he was at London Univ early 50s, his landlady was a portrait painter with a sideline as a pub sign painter. Bill's face ended up outside - I forget which pub, with what name... Shall find out and send you there, Patrick. Best from Max On 20/04/11 4:01 PM, "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thanks Max I got to thinking about the changing of names -must be a treasury > of periods in the ever changing names of London Pubs > Cheers P > > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Max Richards > Sent: 20 April 2011 02:24 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: snap - traffic and park > > Traffic and Park > > Steady surf of stormy seas crashing > incessantly on a seaweed-strewn beach, > > that's what I seem to hear right now > in this inland Melbourne suburb. > > It's morning rush hour on Victoria Road > (till 1914 it was called Bismarck)