| California dreaming 08:38 - Dec 10 with 3898 views | bluelagos |
According to google maps, there's a bit of Ipswich, near the hospital called California. Genuinely.
Wondering if there are any other unusual named areas of towen?
*I sometimes think I missed a vocation on local radio. |  |
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| California dreaming on 08:39 - Dec 10 with 2510 views | itfcjoe |
I think you may be more surprised about that news than the rest of the board..... |  |
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| California dreaming on 08:39 - Dec 10 with 2502 views | hype313 |
There's also a road in Woodbridge called California, which I imagine is a world away from the real place! |  |
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| California dreaming on 08:41 - Dec 10 with 2458 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| California dreaming on 08:39 - Dec 10 by itfcjoe |
I think you may be more surprised about that news than the rest of the board..... |
Haha. Clearly never experienced the delight that is the California Grill |  |
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| California dreaming on 08:42 - Dec 10 with 2480 views | bluelagos |
| California dreaming on 08:39 - Dec 10 by itfcjoe |
I think you may be more surprised about that news than the rest of the board..... |
Tbf I only ever lived 12 months in Ipswich and that was on Norwich Road.
But my knowledge of Lagos suburbs is quite advanced :-) | |
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| California dreaming on 08:42 - Dec 10 with 2471 views | Giant_Midget |
Just across the road from California is Australia. |  | | |
| California dreaming on 08:43 - Dec 10 with 2468 views | GeoffSentence |
You might also be surprised to learn that in Whitton there is a small area called Makoko. |  |
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| California dreaming on 08:43 - Dec 10 with 2462 views | bluelagos |
| California dreaming on 08:41 - Dec 10 by C_HealyIsAPleasure |
Haha. Clearly never experienced the delight that is the California Grill |
Have I been misssing out? Still open? | |
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| California dreaming on 08:44 - Dec 10 with 2445 views | bluelagos |
| California dreaming on 08:43 - Dec 10 by GeoffSentence |
You might also be surprised to learn that in Whitton there is a small area called Makoko. |
Am so unsure if you are pulling my leg...hope it's true. | |
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| California dreaming on 08:46 - Dec 10 with 2440 views | GeoffSentence |
| California dreaming on 08:44 - Dec 10 by bluelagos |
Am so unsure if you are pulling my leg...hope it's true. |
100% true. Apparently the one in Lagos was named by settlers from Whitton seeking a better life. | |
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| California dreaming on 08:49 - Dec 10 with 2417 views | bluelagos |
| California dreaming on 08:46 - Dec 10 by GeoffSentence |
100% true. Apparently the one in Lagos was named by settlers from Whitton seeking a better life. |
Yeah right. I get more gullible every day! | |
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| California dreaming on 08:56 - Dec 10 with 2382 views | footers |
There are also the California cliffs in Kessingland, which were named that after one of the locals went gold prospecting out west and came back with a relative fortune. Local rumours were that there was a gold nugget the size of a fist he buried somewhere along the coast...
I'll see if I can find the chap's name later on. |  |
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| California dreaming on 09:10 - Dec 10 with 2341 views | Steve_M |
Named because it was constructed at the same time as the California gold rush apparently.
There's also Castle Hill, misleadingly named after the remains of a Roman villa were found there in, I think, the 1930s. |  |
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| California dreaming on 09:16 - Dec 10 with 2309 views | GeoffSentence |
| California dreaming on 09:10 - Dec 10 by Steve_M |
Named because it was constructed at the same time as the California gold rush apparently.
There's also Castle Hill, misleadingly named after the remains of a Roman villa were found there in, I think, the 1930s. |
The name Castle Hill actually comes from a farm Castlehill Farm that was in the same location.
Of course the farm itself might have been named for the memory of the villa that used to be up there. | |
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| California dreaming on 09:18 - Dec 10 with 2292 views | Keno |
I dont think there is an underground stop there this is there? |  |
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| California dreaming on 09:24 - Dec 10 with 2275 views | GeoffSentence |
I have just been looking at an old map of Ipswich from 1896, and there is a small area between what is now Brunswick Road and Sidegate Lane that is labelled as Australia. | |
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| California dreaming on 09:26 - Dec 10 with 2264 views | hype313 |
| California dreaming on 09:24 - Dec 10 by GeoffSentence |
I have just been looking at an old map of Ipswich from 1896, and there is a small area between what is now Brunswick Road and Sidegate Lane that is labelled as Australia. |
Did you see a pic of Facters standing at his door? | |
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| California dreaming on 09:29 - Dec 10 with 2250 views | brazil1982 |
Each time I see Boss Hall Industrial Estate I think of Boss Hogg from the Dukes of Hazard. |  | | |
| California dreaming on 09:32 - Dec 10 with 2234 views | GeoffSentence |
| California dreaming on 09:29 - Dec 10 by brazil1982 |
Each time I see Boss Hall Industrial Estate I think of Boss Hogg from the Dukes of Hazard. |
There is a Boss Hoggs truck stop at the Copdock junction of the A12.
Boss Hall itelf seems to be a site of some antiquity, it is labelled with a fancy olde englande style font on the 1896 map. | |
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| California dreaming on 09:34 - Dec 10 with 2230 views | Keno |
It is a little know historical fact that that that area got its name through a misunderstanding, After the Pilgrim Fathers landed on Plymouth Rock two of the young lads set off to seek their fame and fortune in Hollywood. One of them promised his girlfriend Callie he would let her know when they arrived.
After a few months of trekking across the the states and a trip down Route 66 they arrived and the young sent a text to his young lady and waited for her to call back.
A few days went by and his friend asked "did Callie phone ya?"
A local Indian over heard this and thought that sounded like a good name to call the place.
(Keno is bored but happy to share more historical facts)
((like do you know how Henry VIII's 2nd wife for her name?)) | |
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| California dreaming on 09:35 - Dec 10 with 2222 views | Steve_M |
| California dreaming on 09:16 - Dec 10 by GeoffSentence |
The name Castle Hill actually comes from a farm Castlehill Farm that was in the same location.
Of course the farm itself might have been named for the memory of the villa that used to be up there. |
Actually, I'm probably misremembering. That sounds more plausible. | |
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| California dreaming on 09:43 - Dec 10 with 2190 views | GeoffSentence |
| California dreaming on 09:35 - Dec 10 by Steve_M |
Actually, I'm probably misremembering. That sounds more plausible. |
I have heard the same thing about the name of Castle Hill, but I think it is more likely that the farm and the hill it stands on was named from memory of the old villa. The first real evidence of roman habitation there was actually unearthed at the farm in 1854. | |
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| California dreaming on 09:46 - Dec 10 with 2172 views | factual_blue |
| California dreaming on 09:26 - Dec 10 by hype313 |
Did you see a pic of Facters standing at his door? |
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| California dreaming on 09:47 - Dec 10 with 2169 views | jontysnut |
Its a well known fact that the Mamas and the Papa hit song California Dreaming was written after Mama Cass played the California Social club in 1969. The church mentioned in the song is St Andrew's on Brittania Road. |  | | |
| California dreaming on 09:50 - Dec 10 with 2157 views | HealysBackPocket |
| California dreaming on 08:43 - Dec 10 by bluelagos |
Have I been misssing out? Still open? |
For my money, it’s the most overrated kebab shop in Ipswich - they use pre-bagged salad for goodness sake.
Ipswich Kebab on Bramford Road however... *chefs kiss* |  | | |
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