Street Names in Park Way Options

[TallDarkAndHands...]

The Towns Councillors are after new street names based on local famous people.

According to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbury,_Berkshire

A number of famous people have originated from, worked, lived or died in Newbury:

Richard Adams – author
Roger Attfield – thoroughbred horse trainer
Francis Baily – astronomer
Captain Collet Barker - early Australian explorer
Michael Bond – creator of Paddington Bear
Bruno Brookes – radio and tv presenter
Duke of Chandos – bought his 2nd wife in Newbury
Earl of Carnarvon – killed at the 1st battle of Newbury
Keith Chegwin – television presenter
Miles Coverdale – co-author of the 1st English Bible
Emma Crosby – television presenter
George Dangerfield – journalist and author
Lord Falkland – killed at the 1st battle of Newbury
Sebastian Faulks – author
Gerald Finzi – composer and founder of the Newbury String Players
Jill Fraser - theatre owner and director
Christopher Hall - artist and former Mayor of Newbury
Lord Hanson - industrialist
Alec Hopkins – actor
Sir Michael Hordern - actor
Tom Hynes - bass guitarist of metal band Malefice
John Kendrick – patron of the town
William Marshal – given up as a hostage from 'Newbury Castle'
George Melly - jazz musician and writer
Jack O'Newbury – cloth merchant & patron
William of Newbury – 13th century Abbot of Abingdon
Baron Palumbo - property developer and art collector
Jacqueline du Pré – one of the best twentieth century Cello players
Hannah Richings – member of preteen UK pop group S Club 8
Lord George Sanger – circus owner born in Newbury who presented the Queen Victoria statue to the town in 1902
John Septimus Roe – the first Surveyor-General of Western Australia
Hannah Snell – 18th century female soldier
Earl of Sunderland – killed at the 1st battle of Newbury
Edward Charles Titchmarsh – mathematician
Theo Walcott – footballer, originally for A.F.C. Newbury
Sir Frank Williams – grand prix motor racing manager
John Winchcombe II – cloth merchant & patron, son of Jack O'Newbury
Will Young - singer/actor
Chris Bowsher - Lead vocalist of political dub reggae band Radical Dance Faction

Anyone for Walcott Way or Will Young Street. How about Chegwin Road?

[BMR]

Great list of names, but what's the bet the roads will be named after some faceless council bureacrats. Perhaps the roads should be named after the current crop of green goblins.

[Guest_Newburymafia_*]

Who WOULDN'T want to live in the plush penthouse of "Chegwin Tower"?

[Guest_Bill1_*]

Chris Bowsher is from Hungerford.
Theo Walcott is from Compton.
Will Young even further afield, not even West Berkshire.

So if we're allowing those to be considered, may I suggest one Mr A P McCoy of Lambourn..........

[Guest_Bill1_*]

Great list of names, but what's the bet the roads will be named after some faceless council bureacrats. Perhaps the roads should be named after the current crop of green goblins.

"Some faceless coun"........zzzzzzzzzzz Change the bloody record PLEASE!

[TallDarkAndHands...]

"Some faceless coun"........zzzzzzzzzzz Change the bloody record PLEASE!

I think Bill1 Way has a ring about it!

[Bloggo]

Will Young even further afield, not even West Berkshire.

Hungerford actually, The Pheasant pub.

[Guest_Bill1_*]

Hungerford actually, The Pheasant pub.

Sorry?

There is no Pheasant pub in Hungerford.

[Guest_Bill1_*]

I think Bill1 Way has a ring about it!

I own this town you know!

Anyway how about one of the blocks being called TallDarkAndEyesore?

[Bloggo]

Sorry?

There is no Pheasant pub in Hungerford.

Yes there is. Just north of the M4, just off of the Great shefford road. The area is classed as Hungerford.

[Phil_D11102]

How about calling it Eisenhower, Paratropper, or Freedom Way after the the American connection to the area..

[blackdog]

How about 'Money Way' - after Walter Money, not as a comment on the reason Parkway was built.

[blackdog]

Great list of names

Shame so few of them actually come/came from Newbury.

Some are bizarre - Jaqueline du Pre - what on earth is her connection apart from having a sister who lived nearby?

And Lord Falkland and the Earls of Sunderland and Carnarvon - spent a night here once, then died the next day. Just what we need to sell Newbury to visitors!

[misc]

Footfall Parade

[Rachel]

Yes there is. Just north of the M4, just off of the Great shefford road. The area is classed as Hungerford.

Happy to be corrected, but I think Will Young lived in Poughley, which is indeed in West Berks. I think he still has family connections with The Pheasant at Shefford Woodlands, also in West Berks.
A question; on what grounds do we adopt someone as our own? After all, it's reported that Jesus was born in a stable, but that doesn't make him an honourary horse.....

[user23]

Great list of names, but what's the bet the roads will be named after some faceless council bureacrats.

If some poor bloke doesn't have a face perhaps it's the least that can be done do to cheer him up. Not sure how we'd tell if he's smiling though, perhaps he'd give us a thumbs up.

I vote for Walcott Way.

[blackdog]

I vote for Walcott Way.

I would prefer a name that will have some meaning in the future (assuming Parkway will last longer than the memory of Theo Walcott). I am also against naming it after someone who is still living - no chance of some future scandal making the name an embarassment.

The NewburyToday article suggests Charles Dundas, John Rennie or John Gould as recipients of the 'honour' owing to their connection the the K&A canal. Of the three I'd reject Rennie (no real connection with Newbury apart from being engineer/designer of the canal). John Gould did a lot to get the canal reopened and would be a popular choice as well as a Newburian through and through. Dundas is easily the most significant historical figure though he is more associated with Kintbury, where he lived; apart from the canal he is closely linked with the Speenhamland System, probably the most significant historic event that took place in Newbury apart from the two battles.

However, if we are thinking about historic figures; what about Arnulf/Ernulf de Hesdin, the founder of the town - surely he deserves commemoration. Do we have a Hesdin Road anywhere?

[Roost]

How about 'Backhander Way'?!

Or perhaps 'Theendis Close'?

[Guest_Bill1_*]

I vote for Walcott Way.

Shows lots of promise and now needs to live up to reputation?

[Iommi]

It's a shame Pound Street is already taken!