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Probably only of interest to Reg, but nice to see some recognition for a man who did a substantial amount during the Victorian age.... including essentially facilitating the creation of 'modern' Swindon.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-34472215?post_id=10152902182188513_10153202657618513#_=_

Is having a cheap pub named after him not enough?

And a street by the station.....as a kid I was always taken by the sign Back of Gooch Street. Don't know if it is still there, but seemed to me to be the only street to have its back named.

The original Sir Dan, was a lovely building....so in true Swindon planner style, bulldozed and replaced by a carbuncle.

Thamesdown Transport used to have a heritage bus named after him as well. Remember catching it on a summer holiday special to the Oasis.

So he has a bus and a crap pub commemorating him... Swindon really celebrates its forefathers doesn't it!

Don't forget the street...

Gooch was also a key driver for the setting up of the hospital in Emlyn Square...a sort of forerunner of the NHS.

New and Old Swindon were only incorporated in 1900, and there was for a long time a sense of it being 2 different places.

In Eastleigh, there's a Benny Hill Close.

Not relevant at all, you're welcome.

If you are interested in such things this is a good read...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Swindon-The-Legacy-Railway-Town/dp/187359254X

But bloody hell its gone up in price since I bought it when it was published.

No one famous comes from Lancaster so we have no such named streets, we do however boast a Slip Inn Lane and a Bashful Alley!

There's a shagg Street in Lyndhurst too.

 :girlgiggle:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane

Bashful Alley in Lancaster got its name as a street that ladies used to avoid being hassled in the middle ages...

We also have lots of signs to Clitheroe.. which make you chuckle once someone points out what is says if you break the name in half...

We are doing even less to honour Daniel Gooch here than Swindon has done, perhaps move to a new thread?

He was a northerner anyway.

I was convinced that there was another Gooch Crescent/Close/Drive in West Swindon that I remember delivering papers to as a paperboy nearly 30 yrs ago.  And I've just wasted about 5 mins looking for it...only now to realise that the road I was really remembering was Gower Close, Grange Park (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Swindon+SN5/@51.5566583,-1.8487327,3a,75y,281.84h,76.65t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sK0TEZ5Nrrt-psM6xiGbyQg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DK0TEZ5Nrrt-psM6xiGbyQg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D115.64313%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x48714106bbabb695:0xf575fa8929af3add).  Funny how word association plays tricks with your memory.

Isn't the Gooch the bit between the balls and the ring-piece?

Yeah, it fucking hurts when you underestimate the height of a railing, slip down and make full contact with it on the Gooch...

Apparently.

I think Clitheroe was part of of the Scunthorpe problem, along with Penistone and Lightwater. Internet filters went mad.

I understand the bit you refer to and it's equivelent female version to the the Taint. Taint you ball, taint yer arse. Likewise taint the flange and taint the arse.

One of County Kerry's most famous gaelic footballers of recent years was nicknamed 'The Gooch'.

Fact!

How fucking beautiful a backdrop this is - to be sure

www.youtube.com/watch?v=px4xaVHPCqc

 Pleased to find a painting in the Bath Road art gallery this afternoon, a fine piece " the Back of Gooch Street"  Here it is fellow art fans...

(http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/images/paintings/swag/624x544/glw_swag_ag181_624x544.jpg)

Fella called Ronald Thexton.

There's also a bit of a special display until Jan of paintings by a Royal Academician....Craigie Aitchison, I think they're a bit shit, but will have another look, just to see if there's something I'm missing.

That painting is fantastic, I shall go forth and peruse it in person

I thought that was called the perineum. Anyway, if only Gooch had thrown his sandwich somewhere else maybe Swindon would have remained a quaint market town atop a hill. Rather than be ruined by the invasion of the railway & all the related problems.