You can just see the city-planners - seated round a table at the end of a long day where they have been having a meeting about what to name the ‘new’ streets which have been created after old parts of the city have been pulled down and rebuilt.
They obviously were running out of inspiration when it came to this street in Fenton…!
Not at all, sir, in fact this is one of the better street names in the city, for the road runs along a section of the old Lane End Tramway which ran from the canal (near to where the Britannia Stadium now is), all the way to Longton (then called 'Lane End'), terminating near to where the famous bridge was later built. The tramway was built by the canal company to help bring pots from Longton and coal from Fenton down to the waterway in the days before railways. It was, in effect, perhaps the first railway line in the Potteries, (although there are several other contenders built by the canal company at Hanley, Etruria and Burslem)!
ReplyDeleteYes, I suppose, when you put it like that: it's a sort of commemoration of what once was, isn't it? Okay, I withdraw the slur: the planners were not so lazy, then!
Delete