Small Thoughts on the Naming of Streets.

On my way to the bus each morning I walk along Gainsborough Place. It is an ordinary street of terraced houses in the residential area in which I am staying. There are really no outstanding features about it...other than its name. I have no idea why it was given that name. Perhaps it is named after the famous English painter or even a celebrated local person. It really doesn't matter. What interested me about the name was its length. If you call a street 'Gainsborough Place' and put the name on signs to be placed on the houses at each end of the street wouldn't it be better if the signs didnt meet in the middle of the row of terraced houses? Just a thought.