On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, John Rowland wrote:

Mizter T wrote:
John Rowland wrote:

Aldgate East station is in Whitechapel High Street. It should probably
be called Whitechapel, and Whitechapel should be called something
else!

There's no convention in this country that says stations must be named
after the roads there on. Aldgate East is in the vicinity of Aldgate,
so I don't really buy that argument.

No, it's in the vicinity of Whitechapel, as evidenced by the fact that
it's on Whitechapel High Street.

Don't people now refer to the area around Whitechapel tube as Whitechapel,
though?

Yes I know Shepherd's Bush is having a name change - but that's a
change that pretty much everyone can agree on.

I don't know... Shepherds Bush Market has an entrance opposite Goldhawk
Road station. People standing in the foyer of Goldhawk Road Station
looking out will naturally think the they are in Shepherds Bush Market
station, and if they are phoning to be picked up, this could lead to
confusion.

Heh!

tom

--
Don't ask me man, i didn't do it.

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:40:38 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, John Rowland wrote:

Mizter T wrote:
John Rowland wrote:

Aldgate East station is in Whitechapel High Street. It should probably
be called Whitechapel, and Whitechapel should be called something
else!

There's no convention in this country that says stations must be named
after the roads there on. Aldgate East is in the vicinity of Aldgate,
so I don't really buy that argument.

No, it's in the vicinity of Whitechapel, as evidenced by the fact that
it's on Whitechapel High Street.

Don't people now refer to the area around Whitechapel tube as Whitechapel,
though?

Yup, IME.

See, frex:
http://www.bartsandthelondon.org.uk/...to_find_us.asp

"Directions and site maps are available for The Royal London Hospital
in Whitechapel".

James Farrar wrote:
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:40:38 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, John Rowland wrote:

Mizter T wrote:
John Rowland wrote:

Aldgate East station is in Whitechapel High Street. It should
probably be called Whitechapel, and Whitechapel should be called
something else!

Aldgate East is in the vicinity of
Aldgate, so I don't really buy that argument.

No, it's in the vicinity of Whitechapel, as evidenced by the fact
that it's on Whitechapel High Street.

Don't people now refer to the area around Whitechapel tube as
Whitechapel, though?

Yup, IME.

See, frex:
http://www.bartsandthelondon.org.uk/...to_find_us.asp

"Directions and site maps are available for The Royal London Hospital
in Whitechapel".

I don't think anyone is disputing that Whitechapel Station and the RL
Hospital are in Whitechapel. But Aldgate East is (as I may have already
mentioned) in Whitechapel High Street, and if you're going to have a station
called Whitechapel, Aldgate East should be the one.

Actually, rename Whitechapel to Whitechapel Hospital, and rename the
hospital to that as well. Then after 10 years or so you could rename Aldgate
East to Whitechapel, or Whitechapel High Street.

John Rowland wrote:

Actually, rename Whitechapel to Whitechapel Hospital, and rename the
hospital to that as well.

Rename?

What's wrong with "The Royal London"? Call the tube station "Royal London
Hospital".

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, John Rowland wrote:

James Farrar wrote:
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:40:38 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, John Rowland wrote:

Mizter T wrote:
John Rowland wrote:

Aldgate East station is in Whitechapel High Street. It should
probably be called Whitechapel, and Whitechapel should be called
something else!

Aldgate East is in the vicinity of Aldgate, so I don't really buy
that argument.

No, it's in the vicinity of Whitechapel, as evidenced by the fact
that it's on Whitechapel High Street.

Don't people now refer to the area around Whitechapel tube as
Whitechapel, though?

Yup, IME.

"Directions and site maps are available for The Royal London Hospital
in Whitechapel".

I don't think anyone is disputing that Whitechapel Station and the RL
Hospital are in Whitechapel. But Aldgate East is (as I may have already
mentioned) in Whitechapel High Street, and if you're going to have a station
called Whitechapel, Aldgate East should be the one.

Only if Whitechapel High Street is the centre of Whitechapel. Clearly, it
once was - is it now?

Actually, rename Whitechapel to Whitechapel Hospital, and rename the
hospital to that as well.

I submit that renaming the station to Whitechapel Road might be simpler.

Then after 10 years or so you could rename Aldgate East to Whitechapel,
or Whitechapel High Street.

I'd suggest Whitechapel High Street, to reduce the change that people will
confuse it with the old Whitechapel. Better yet - how about Commercial
Street?

tom

--
Like Kurosawa i make mad films; okay, i don't make films, but if i did
they'd have a samurai.

Tom Anderson wrote:

Don't people now refer to the area around Whitechapel tube as Whitechapel,
though?

Ah Beckification - the reconceptualisation of London's geography based on
the tube map.