Thursday, June 22, 2006
come on lorraine crapp
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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