THE Evening Press article 'Streets Ahead in Name Game' (November 7) reminded me of what we have lost at Tadcaster in street names.
Not so very long ago, we had such private addresses as Hazledene Villas, Sunnydale, Coronation Villas, York Terrace and Victoria Terrace, all gone, never to return.
Still on the subject of names, I hope the Prime Minister will tell those French politicians who have so audaciously requested that Waterloo Station be re-named, to get lost - or words to that effect. I declare an interest, however. My family roots happen to be in that London railway station. One of Waterloo Station's extensions replaced a street where my grandparents had lived and where my mother was born.
We must not allow French politicians to try to re-write our country's history for whatever reason.
Ida Mary Goodrick,
Woodlands Avenue,
Tadcaster.
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