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From: "Kess" <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Story behind a street name?
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 20:35:08 +1100
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You must be from Oz,. otherwise you would have said 'football' hehe! (I'm
learning!)

Kess
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Boyce" <>
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Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Lon] Story behind a street name?


> 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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