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J G Miller wrote:
On Saturday, April 9th, 2011 at 15:25:20h +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

Well, you can blame the greenies for that. A lot of councils are
infested with the scum

Presumably, because the voters vote them in.

Stupidity is rife.

Bill

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Zathras wrote:
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:16:44 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

We were appalled when they built an airport at Doncaster and called
it 'Robin Hood'. We aren't in Sherwood Forest or Notts, and Robin
Hood has no place in local history. No-one has any idea where Robin
Hood Airport is.
Excellent. Airport names courtesy if Ignoramus Ltd.

Yes, you do get the impression that someone in London found the airport
site on Multimap and then just clicked around the wider area until they
came up with something.

If they'd really wanted to give the airport (ex RAF Finningley) an
apposite local name with some real historical clout they could have
called it Wellington Bomber Airport. We don't get many Germans round
here so it wouldn't have upset anybody.

Bill
Or "Bomber Harris Airport".
--
Ian

Bill Wright wrote:
Zathras wrote:

Up here we have the other side of the coin like 'Glasgow' Airport
(which isn't even in *Greater* Glasgow, yet) but for sheer nonsense,
it's difficult to beat Glasgow Prestwick Airport. Presumably somebody
thinks that Scotland is Glasgow or that anyone flying into Scotland is
too stupid to work out the most basic geography of the land. Either
way, there's not even consistency. If there were, we'd have Glasgow
Paisley Airport.

We were appalled when they built an airport at Doncaster and called it
'Robin Hood'. We aren't in Sherwood Forest or Notts, and Robin Hood has
no place in local history. No-one has any idea where Robin Hood Airport is.

Bill

Just follow the signs...

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David Kennedy

http://www.anindianinexile.com

In article , Ian wrote:
If they'd really wanted to give the airport (ex RAF Finningley) an
apposite local name with some real historical clout they could have
called it Wellington Bomber Airport. We don't get many Germans round
here so it wouldn't have upset anybody.

Bill
Or "Bomber Harris Airport".

We've got a "John Lennon Airport" here, though I'm not sure of the
relevance to air travel (apart from the fact that he must have used it
of course, which hardly sets him apart from most of us).

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On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:44:21 +0100, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

In article , Ian wrote:
If they'd really wanted to give the airport (ex RAF Finningley) an
apposite local name with some real historical clout they could have
called it Wellington Bomber Airport. We don't get many Germans round
here so it wouldn't have upset anybody.

Bill
Or "Bomber Harris Airport".

We've got a "John Lennon Airport" here, though I'm not sure of the
relevance to air travel (apart from the fact that he must have used it
of course, which hardly sets him apart from most of us).


We have the "George Best Belfast City Airport". GB might or might not
have used it. The only time I was in the same airport lounge as him was
at Belfast International Airport.

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

Roderick Stewart wrote:

We've got a "John Lennon Airport" here, though I'm not sure of the
relevance to air travel (apart from the fact that he must have used it
of course, which hardly sets him apart from most of us).


Would he have used it? There wasn't that much traffic from there in the
early 60's and after that he was London based.

--
David Kennedy

http://www.anindianinexile.com

On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:56:16 +0100, Peter Duncanson
wrote:

On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:44:21 +0100, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

In article , Ian wrote:
If they'd really wanted to give the airport (ex RAF Finningley) an
apposite local name with some real historical clout they could have
called it Wellington Bomber Airport. We don't get many Germans round
here so it wouldn't have upset anybody.

Bill
Or "Bomber Harris Airport".

We've got a "John Lennon Airport" here, though I'm not sure of the
relevance to air travel (apart from the fact that he must have used it
of course, which hardly sets him apart from most of us).


We have the "George Best Belfast City Airport". GB might or might not
have used it. The only time I was in the same airport lounge as him was
at Belfast International Airport.

Which reminds me. A year or more ago my son was flying from London to
Belfast International. Due to bad weather the airport was closed
temporarily and his plane was diverted to Belfast City Airport to wait
for the weather to improve. The captain of the plane gave the passengers
a running commentary about what was or was not happening. Eevntually
they got permission to take off and go the the international airport.
The captain said that this was the first time in his life that he had
ever had to ask for permission to land at an airport before taking off
from another one (they are so close together).

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 13:34:03 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

In this area there are no end of old colliery tips which have been
converted into parks. Very nice, but frankly we have far too many parks
now. One pit tip has been tuned into a housing estate and jolly nice it
is too -- steep winding roads and every now and then a child finds an
unexploded detonator poking up through the lawn. Up there at the top the
bracing north winds soon blow away the slight smell of methane, and
those little solar-powered garden lights are quite unnecessary. They
should build on a few more of these tips.

They built a luxury executive housing estate on the remnants of a
pyrotechnics factory near Gatwick. I used to know one of the guys who
worked there and had tales of the shacks exploding showering the area
with noxious chemicals. Normally the place they'd have built a council
estate so it's nice to see the Upper Clarses suffering for a change.

On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:25:05 +0100, Zathras
wrote:

On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 13:34:03 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

New builds are a disgrace in this country,

They vary wildly in quality. Our current house is a 60s bungalow and
the surveyor practically had orgasms over the build quality.

The rest of the road and its side roads were added from then until
recently and while the build quality of a lot of the places is
excellent, some of the newer additions are rather lacking, though the
architecture is good and blends with the older stuff nicely.

Nothing new though, my grandfather was asked to tender for some of the
30s (?) council estates in the south east and when he saw the
standards he was expected to work down to he refused.

My pet hate is zero consideration for cars. 'Lovely' big (very
expensive houses) round here can only attract multi-4x4 car families.
You then see them abandoned all over the place because of garages
(usually built-in) being only large enough for a motorbike and some
junk the owners can't fit into their multi 'compact' roomed house.

Sexy 'traffic calmed' twisty roads are great for forcing cars to park
on pavements as well as introducing man-made hazards for motorists to
navigate. Gah.

Yes we see that sort of thing in some of the recent additions in the
Big Cities, like Lowestoft, houses jammed together and insufficient
parking. Parts of it look like Basingstoke. The council actually got a
bollocking for allowing gardens that were too big and space for too
many cars.

Most of the area is villages and the builds there are infill and often
(still) well designed to match what's already there. And people who
have 4x4s actually use them.

One of the major problems is the ongoing loss of village shops and
pubs so people have to travel to town to shop. They buy cheap petrol
in Tescos to enable them to drive to Tescos and back.

On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:12:13 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

Zathras wrote:
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:16:44 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

We were appalled when they built an airport at Doncaster and called it
'Robin Hood'. We aren't in Sherwood Forest or Notts, and Robin Hood has
no place in local history. No-one has any idea where Robin Hood Airport is.

Excellent. Airport names courtesy if Ignoramus Ltd.

Yes, you do get the impression that someone in London found the airport
site on Multimap and then just clicked around the wider area until they
came up with something.

I'm pretty sure there was a Robin Hood Roundabout on the A3 south of
London. WHY???

Here we have a Chicken Roundabout

http://www.chickenroundabout.co.uk/

or did, they seem to be dying out/being killed off.

I haven't yet heard of a Chicken Airport though there may be a Turkey
one.

If they'd really wanted to give the airport (ex RAF Finningley) an
apposite local name with some real historical clout they could have
called it Wellington Bomber Airport. We don't get many Germans round
here so it wouldn't have upset anybody.

Gosh, they could even have called it Finningley as a tribute to the
fighters.