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Why are the British so boring with names?

Crossrail is a great engineering feat – but did we need to call it the Elizabeth Line?

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May 24, 2022
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Back in the 1850s, when London was getting its first proper government, the authorities had a problem with street names – they were just so boring that it was actually confusing. 

According to Judith Flanders’s The Victorian City: ‘In 1853, London had twenty-five Victoria Streets, thirty-seven King and twenty-seven Queen Streets, twenty-two Princes, seve…

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