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Tredman said:
Luton and Bedford are two of the worst places I’ve ever been.
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I felt anxious wandering around Luton town centre, its not often you feel like that, particularly in a town centre. That was around the Uni area too :ROFLMAO:
 
I've been to Lubumbashi, Luton & Bedford are fathoms of shit worse than there and neither have been in a civil war recently.
 
What are they doing in Darlington Street now? They already had it closed for about two years and during COVID.
 
As it says in the link above your comment, it’s improvement works in Lichfield street, queen square and Darlington street
 
Jack Regan said:
What are they doing in Darlington Street now? They already had it closed for about two years and during COVID.
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Just a random thought... Bearing in mind Wolverhampton City Centre has lots of royal named streets and many referring to towns in our region, why on earth is one main street called 'Darlington'? Anybody got any idea?
 
Wellen Wolf said:
Just a random thought... Bearing in mind Wolverhampton City Centre has lots of royal named streets and many referring to towns in our region, why on earth is one main street called 'Darlington'? Anybody got any idea?
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Derr. So 20th Century my question. Just googled it and found the following:

'The Town Commissioners planned this important street in September 1814 on the grounds that “the new street from High Green to the bottom of Salop Street will be highly beneficial to the Town”. It ran over land owned by Lord Darlington, who sold the land to the town for £350 per acre. But it was not until 1823 that an order was placed for 2,000 tons of cinder to surface the road.'

Edit: Just found out the source of some other names that I always found strange in Wolverhampton. In the Express and Star there is the following reference. This bloke must have owned a big chunk of central Wolverhampton land.

'The land for the new road ran belonged to William Harry Vane, who sold it to the town for £350 per acre.'

'As Vane was the third Earl of Darlington, the road was named after him. As a great grandson of Charles II and his mistress Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, he gained the titles Baron Raby of Raby Castle and Duke of Cleveland in 1833. Wolverhampton has Raby Street, Vane Road and Cleveland Street. Bath Road too as he had acquired the estate of the Countess of Bath.'
 
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Wellen Wolf said:
Derr. So 20th Century my question. Just googled it and found the following:

'The Town Commissioners planned this important street in September 1814 on the grounds that “the new street from High Green to the bottom of Salop Street will be highly beneficial to the Town”. It ran over land owned by Lord Darlington, who sold the land to the town for £350 per acre. But it was not until 1823 that an order was placed for 2,000 tons of cinder to surface the road.'
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Drive past the Cleveland Arms every match day too. Might be the same Earl or Lord, rather than a fondness for the Cleveland Hills.
 
Mel Evo said:
Drive past the Cleveland Arms every match day too. Might be the same Earl or Lord, rather than a fondness for the Cleveland Hills.
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Ah yes, of course. Coming originally from Wednesfield I have passed that place a million times without thinking why it was called 'Cleveland'.
 
I’m afraid to report I’ve yet to find a Wednesfield Arms in Cleveland (UK, not the Browns one).
 
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