RMweb Gold Russ (mines a pint) Posted December 15, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 15, 2011 The delightful hamlet of 'Cocklick End' in Lancashire. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/place/Cocklick_End_in_Lancashire_484611_569611.htm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted December 15, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 15, 2011 And whilst on the subject. Knockenshag. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=275500&y=618500&z=120&sv=knockenshag&st=3&tl=Map+of+Knockenshag,+Dumfries+and+Galloway+[Hill/Mountain] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penlan Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 And whilst on the subject. Knockenshag. There's Glenguffock at the bottom of the map too - I think I've got the vowels in the right place... .....and if you move the map up a 'page' (or scroll down) there's Guffock and Cocker Hills too, I suppose there's not a lot else to do in Dumfries and Galloway !!!!! All E.& O. E.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 I've got a great idea for a Welsh narrow gauge railway, set somewhere on the Asian subcontinent. The line shall be called the Tal-y-ban. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ChrisN Posted May 23, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 23, 2012 Wonder if anyone's built a layout and nicked the villiage name from just south of Llandrindod Wells - Cwm Bach. It means Little Valley. On my unbuilt layout set on the Welsh coast north of Barmouth there is a Cwm Bach, along with Pen-y-Cilan, Abernaf, which is of course the bridge over the river, Afon Naf, and they are on the Traeth Mawr & Twill Ddu railway. The beauty is that they all mean something in Welsh. I will not repeat the dialogue between Jones the Fare and a passenger who asked for a ticket to Cwm Bach. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talisman56 Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 On the subject of Company names, I'm not sure that I'd like my house to be on sale through an Estate Agents that I've seen on my travels through the southern counties of England (certainly in Sussex and Hampshire, IIRC) called 'Gascoigne-Pees'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted May 26, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 26, 2012 ^^^ There is ( or maybe was ) an estate agents called "Crapper and Haigh" in the Sheffield area! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted May 26, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 26, 2012 The name of the 009 layout is Avyn-A-Llyin (pronounced' having a lie in') and is still on the exhibition circuit after 22 years if anybody is interested. It was also featured in the February 1992 Railway Modeller. Are they always last setting up their layout? Kevin Martin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Norfolk & Weymate, Norfolk & Chanceson and Poynton Sneer all spring to mind - Chris Gilbert had the Much Chattering and Little Werk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB-AU Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 More on the subject of company names, note this shop in Chelsea SW3. http://farm1.staticflickr.com/22/26935771_b7e224a755_z.jpg Cheers David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruciethefish Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 The late Mike Uridge had a layout which included 'O' 'OO' & 'N' gauge, & made frequent appearances at south coast exhibitions. This was entitled 'N-Y-thingoes'.. He was a wonderfully eccentric man.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidR Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 Near to where I (sometimes) live, in N.Norfolk, there is a village called 'Sloley'; not far away ,towards Kings Lynn, is Gt.Snoring and Little Snoring. In Cambs. (I think) is 'Six Mile Bottom'. Near to where I formerly lived in Lincoln, is 'Sots Hole' and 'Wasps Nest'. British place names are truly wonderous. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjcampbell Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 I remember seeing a solicitors - in Kidderminster I think, but I could be wrong - going by the name of "Doolittle & Dally". One would have thought that was detrimental to business. As for layouts, the Sussex Downs 009 group have a layout called the "Upsan Downs and Everleight Railway". Stations include "Gryndene Halt" (people have been known to ask why it is so called, "because all trains come to one"), and the canal-side "Wharf Cut" - but on the station name board the "W" has fallen off... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ELTEL Posted May 31, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 31, 2012 Our club (Stafford Railway Circle) has a new NG layout called Seagone "Well the tide was out" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleefy Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 I remember seeing a solicitors - in Kidderminster I think, but I could be wrong - going by the name of "Doolittle & Dally". One would have thought that was detrimental to business. There was a solicitors in Nottingham called Rupert Bear. Apparently he's now retired but his firm and his name live on. If only the other partner had adopted Mint as a surname... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 I remember seeing a solicitors - in Kidderminster I think, but I could be wrong - going by the name of "Doolittle & Dally". One would have thought that was detrimental to business. They're Estate Agents - this is the Bridgnorth Office Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 My O gauge North American layout has sharp curves and fierce grades. I recently bought a nice (but out of my era) BNSF hopper car. (Burlington Northern Santa Fe) - now how can I justify that - easy BNSF = Busted kNucle (couplers) and Squealing Flanges !! Brit15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjcampbell Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 They're Estate Agents - this is the Bridgnorth Office Well it was some years ago! good to see they are still going. Amazing really, with that name, but I suppose for an estate agent having a "memorable" name on a signboard if an advantage! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted June 8, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 8, 2012 On the subject of estate agents I am currently gazing out of the window at a sign proudly proclaiming 'Bacon For Sale' http://www.baconandco.co.uk/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 There are two consecutive stations on the Stubaitalbahn between Innsbruck and Fulpmes in the Austrian Tirol whose names tell you what a typical layout exhibitor does: NATTERS and MUTTERS... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scots region Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 I'll think I'll call my layout "Damepayne". You could have an undertakers called "Seanyunex" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westcountryman Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 Just finished one of the buildings on our club DCC, exhibition layout 'Tawbridge' It's a lovely period building in local stone, occupied by a certain HUGH JAMPTON seed merchant. As far as I'm aware, none of the club members have twigged the joke yet! There will be photos appearing soon on our layout topic...........he he! Come along to our show & witness Hugh in the flesh! The laughter never stops at Barnstaple Model Railway Club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
7APT7 Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Hi All Love all the name... How about "Seymour Day & Sons" Window Cleaners Great name... I love reading all the Puns....etc Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Removed a/c Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 ^^^ There is ( or maybe was ) an estate agents called "Crapper and Haigh" in the Sheffield area! Still is and at Swallownest, worked for them many years ago. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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