First question: Roughly when did Lower Regent Street get renamed into
Regent Street?

Second Question: Is it simply worth firing off a complaint to LUL to ask
why the street exit signs haven't been changed? I'm guessing they
haven't been changed is they fit in with the décor of the station and
would be too expensive or impossible to replace or correct.

--
Phil Richards, London, UK
3,600+ railway photos since 1980 at:
http://europeanrail.fotopic.net
http://britishrail.fotopic.net

In article , philrichards1
@blueyonder.co.uk says...

First question: Roughly when did Lower Regent Street get renamed into
Regent Street?

Second Question: Is it simply worth firing off a complaint to LUL to ask
why the street exit signs haven't been changed? I'm guessing they
haven't been changed is they fit in with the décor of the station and
would be too expensive or impossible to replace or correct.

Was it ever officially Lower Regent Street?

I have various Kelly's Post Office Directories and London atlases of
different ages and all seem to show just Regent Street [SW1 south of
Piccadilly Circus].

Maybe Mr Jelf knows.

In message , Jim
writes
In article , philrichards1
says...

First question: Roughly when did Lower Regent Street get renamed into
Regent Street?

Second Question: Is it simply worth firing off a complaint to LUL to ask
why the street exit signs haven't been changed? I'm guessing they
haven't been changed is they fit in with the décor of the station and
would be too expensive or impossible to replace or correct.

Was it ever officially Lower Regent Street?

It was certainly not called that when I was pounding the beat in 1969.
It was an unofficial title. The part above Piccadilly Circus is W1 area
while the lower part is SW1.

Other oddities of the area coding is that one side of Piccadilly is W1
while the other is SW1. Marylebone road has W1 and NW1 area. I'm sure
you can come up with others.

I have various Kelly's Post Office Directories and London atlases of
different ages and all seem to show just Regent Street [SW1 south of
Piccadilly Circus].

Maybe Mr Jelf knows.

--
Mike Hughes
A Taxi driver licensed for London and Brighton
at home in Tarring, West Sussex, England
Interested in American trains real and model?
Look here http://mikehughes627.fotopic.net/

In message , Phil Richards
writes

First question: Roughly when did Lower Regent Street get renamed into
Regent Street?

I think it's only ever been a colloquial name, albeit widely used (the
Royal Mail database records the "Lower Regent Street Post Office" as
being at 11, Regent Street, for instance!).

Second Question: Is it simply worth firing off a complaint to LUL to
ask why the street exit signs haven't been changed?

Why? There are all sorts of signs that refine the exact location of an
exit (e.g. from Green Park ... "Piccadilly North"). There is no
expectation that a road is named Piccadilly North.
--
Paul Terry