[HPforGrownups] Re: Vauxhall Road, Again

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 89495

On 23 Jan 2004 at 21:22, Geoff Bannister wrote:

> Actually, Shaun, you've run into one of those odd English usages. The 
> giveaway is the direct article... "the" Vauxhall Road. If the batsman 
> had belted the ball hard enough to land in what is now Kennington 
> Lane, which would be a feat worthy of Superman, the paper would have 
> said "hit the ball into Vauxhall Road" - no article.

Actually, I am aware of that useage. It's used here as well. My 
question is, however, that if the term is in common enough use to 
appear multiple times in The Times, for whatever reason, is it 
reasonable or not to suppose that a newsagent might print that term 
on their own products? I know that does happen here, I might add - 
I just don't know if its done in the UK.

Perhaps Riddle's Diary was sold by "Smith and Jones, The Vauxhall 
Road Newsagents" for example? Is something like that a reasonable 
possibility, based on your knowledge.

[Incidentally, looking at scaled maps, and aerial photographs, I 
calculate the distance from the centre of the Oval to a point in 
Kennington lane, at around 320 metres. That is an impressive shot, 
certainly - but I have seen a shot of that magnitude in a game at 
the MCG once (the ball landed in Charles Street, Jolimont). Most 
phenomenal shot I've ever seen - it's not quite superman, but it 
was incredibly impressive.]

The fact is, though, I don't what road was being referred to in 
those articles - I'm just wondering though, as the term does seem 
to be used, would anyone be likely to use such a term in describing 
their business?


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