He walked down Coleridge Close, turned right into Tennyson Avenue, then left into Wordsworth Drive, and down the snicket into Station Road.
It isn't only Reginald Perrin's Climthorpe that has a Poets Estate. Today I explored one of the many parts of Market Harborough that didn't used to be there and came across this collection of roads.
When delivering at the Crewe by-election I found myself on a similar estate where all the roads were named after writers. I was delighted to discover that G. K. Chesterton's famous telegram to his wife - "Am at Crewe station. Where should I be?" - was commemorated in the name of Chesterton Drive
ReplyDeleteFunnily enough, they tell the same story about "Am in Market Harborough..."
ReplyDeleteSomeone should take their camera round the Sandfields in Port Talbot. There is not only a set of poets, but also other writers and artists.
ReplyDeleteBletchley in Milton Keynes has a Poets Estate (alongside Lakes, Castles, Fairways, Racecourses, Rivers, Saints, Abbeys, and Counties, I think)
ReplyDeleteStandish Lower Ground, where I lived on the edge of Wigan in the early 80s, had a 3-road poets' estate. We lived in Browning Grove, off Byrom Avenue (according to its street sign). Perhaps there was a poet called Byrom ..
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