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From: "Ken Boyce" <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Story behind a street name?
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:04:06 -0800
References: <Tsnid8A2TWH+Ew5h@varneys.demon.co.uk>


As a street soccer player I seem to remember that the air bag inside of a
leather soccer ball was a cow/pigs bladder

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eve McLaughlin" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 4:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Lon] Story behind a street name?


>
> >
> >While looking at an old map of London, I noticed a major east-west
roadway that
> >ran past St Paul's. The part of it west of St Paul's was clearly named
"Blow
> >Bladder Street". If SKS knows the story behind that name, I'd like very
much
> >to hear it.
> as cow bladders were used as primitive footballs (AFTER removal from sd
> cow) it seems likely that the lads of the village here profited by the
> near proximity of Smithfield market to acquire playthings - and used
> them for street football, to the annoyance of the locals.
>
> --
> Eve McLaughlin
>
> Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
> Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society
>
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