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From: "Ken Boyce" <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Story behind a street name?
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:41:26 -0800
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Blimey - I knew those Canadians would get me eventually!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kess" <>
To: "Ken Boyce" <>; <>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 1:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Lon] Story behind a street name?


> You must be from Oz,. otherwise you would have said 'football' hehe! (I'm
> learning!)
>
> Kess
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ken Boyce" <>
> To: <>
> 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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