Lorraine Crescent is named for Lorraine Crapp, an Australian olympic swimmer of the 1950s. She rose to prominence in her late teens, and was presumably still a teenager when the Housing Commission named Lorraine Crescent for her. For more information on Lorraine Crapp see this.
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Bet you're glad the council didn't go with the obvious alternative.
Of course all the other surrounding streets are named for swimmers but via their surnames. I wouldn't have minded the obvious alternative. Lorraine herself seems to have done alright.
You could have retitled your blogname More Crap from Crapp Crescent.
Oh OK. Thanks.
I meant that in the nicest possible way of course.
I know.
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