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Posted by Rail Blue on Tue Jan 23 08:19:45 2007, in response to Re: Very silly Underground map, posted by soton si on Tue Jan 23 07:43:19 2007. My old neck of the woods, in the nether reaches of the met line at very odd. Leanne Melbourne, Sejal Batavia - who are they (they definitely aren't schools)?Gox knows... all I know is that Sejal Batavia is a hapax. Oh, and I believe Southwark station won some ghastly televised "talent" contest, and Highgate station had something to do with cartography. And I wonder why Vauxhall's been renamed after a North Vietnamese general (I suppose it's no worse than the Newt's dallyings with the FARC). Is there some theme to these names that I'm missing? Maybe Eastcote station is a clue - it's eponym is some Kosavar kid who won an award for creative writing. and Park High School (instead of Chalfont & Latimer) - I have no idea where that is, and that was my closest tube station when I came to choose schools! Unless they merged Chesham Park School and Chesham High School, which of course, are much nearer Chesham tube (Chesham High is the grammar school, Chesham Park is the secondary modern or whatever they are called - no one uses a special name for them). Apparently, there's a Park High School in Stanmore. I love the way that neither of the two Challoner's schools (Grammar schools, one for boys, just up the road from Amersham station and one for girls, about 5-6 minutes walk from Chalfont station) aren't on there - it's probably because they can't be seen to have schools that select on ability, could they I reckon it's part that and part their being outside Tooting Bec station's province. (they do however seem to have schools that sound as if they select on wealth, which is much less socialist, but which Labour have never tried to abolish) You're right, but if Labour had the sense to become that intellectually honest, we'd miss the fun of seeing them squirm on Newsnight every time one of their kids hits the age of 11. |
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