Municipal Turd Polishing

[StevieBee]

Purfleet in Thurrock to become 'Purfleet-on-Thames to make it more.....'appealing'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-513084...

Any other examples of wonderfully optimistic municipal turd polishing out there?

[grumbledoak]

Jesus Christ. I thought "Staines upon Thames" was bad enough.

[T6]

I seem to recall Shropshire being re-badged as Salop … which lasted about as long as Consignia.

[anonymous-user]

T6 said:

I seem to recall Shropshire being re-badged as Salop … which lasted about as long as Consignia.

That went back and forth several times from what i can remember from when my brother was doing his apprenticehsip at Sankey's in Telford.

[talksthetorque]

Just nipping to the wine bar in "East" Didsbury

[Countdown]

Isn’t Moss Side referred to as “North Didsbury” by Estate Agents?

[Dynion Araf Uchaf]

Didcot to be re-christened Didcot Garden Town...

just needs some gardens.....

[TorqueVR]

Many years ago Streatham (in South London if you don't know it) was rebranded as St Reatham.

[talksthetorque]

Countdown said:

Isn’t Moss Side referred to as “North Didsbury” by Estate Agents?

Going the other way, Alan Beswick of BBC Radio Manceshter had a special name for the spectacularly over the top gold and marble monument to consumerism that is the Trafford Centre:
Dumplington Precinct.

[Triumph Trollomite]

talksthetorque said:

Just nipping to the wine bar in "East" Didsbury

Christ, 20 odd years back I dated one of the barmaids there

[Agammemnon]

Conservative councillor Mark Coxhill said it was a "very exciting" decision.

Labour councillor Vicky Holloway said it would make the town a "more desirable place" to live, work and visit.


I wonder how much their delusions will cost.

[eharding]

RAF Bobbington -> RAF Halfpenny Green -> Halfpenny Green Airfield -> Wolverhampton Airport -> London Wolverhampton Airport -> London Wolverhampton Spaceport -> London Wolverhampton Intergalactic Spaceport & Spa Resort -> Site soon to be developed for housing.

[eldar]

Triumph Trollomite said:

Christ, 20 odd years back I dated one of the barmaids there

Via carbon dating? Neolithic?

[ATG]

This place is so st that the very name of it induces sympathetic daihorea. So let's change this st place's name. As Shakespeare nearly said, a turd by any other name would still smell like a turd.

[cherryowen]

slopes said:

T6 said:

I seem to recall Shropshire being re-badged as Salop … which lasted about as long as Consignia.

That went back and forth several times from what i can remember from when my brother was doing his apprenticehsip at Sankey's in Telford.

Salop for Shropshire is akin to Oxon for Oxfordshire; it's nothing more than an abbreviation.

In South Shropshire, back in the day, a resident of Ludlow or Clee Hill would refer to Shrewsbury as "Salop".

This is my 30th year living in Shropshire, and never once has it been intimated that the county is to be re-named as Salop.

[StevieBee]

Agammemnon said:

Conservative councillor Mark Coxhill said it was a "very exciting" decision.

Mr Coxhill who moved away from Purfleet is considering moving back there because of the name change!!!

[numtumfutunch]

TorqueVR said:

Many years ago Streatham (in South London if you don't know it) was rebranded as St Reatham.

That was an Eddie Izzard gag not an actual rebranding

[garagewidow]

ATG said:

This place is so st that the very name of it induces sympathetic daihorea. So let's change this st place's name. As Shakespeare nearly said, a turd by any other name would still smell like a turd.

It's happened all the way along the Thames corridor.

Expansion to the east meant it was inevitable.

I just hope the potential buyers are forewarned they are buying properties on a 'former' flood plain.

[dvs_dave]

TorqueVR said:

Many years ago Streatham (in South London if you don't know it) was rebranded as St Reatham.

Stevenage to become St. Evenage. Pronounced “Saint Eh-ven-arrjjj”

[hutchst]

garagewidow said:

It's happened all the way along the Thames corridor.

Expansion to the east meant it was inevitable.

I just hope the potential buyers are forewarned they are buying properties on a 'former' flood plain.

This. Even the approach roads into/out of the Dartford tunnel on the Essex side are built on piles, because of the boggy peat.

Is the margarine factory still there? That was one horrible stink.