spooky stuff

[realthog]

The latest New Scientist "Feedback" column has the gen:

CONNOISSEURS of 1970s UK police soap operas will remember the refrain "Let's be 'avin' you" when an arrest was about to be made. Matthew Falder brings to our attention what he describes as an example not of nominative determinism, but of locational determinism - the existence of a police facility on Letsby Avenue in the Yorkshire town of Sheffield.

Comments

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

There would of course be an Evening Hall near the Dock Green Police Station.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

A programme that had a formative role in my childhood; it was one I never, ever missed if I could possibly help it (and in those days there weren't endless repeats). Years later I saw Jack Warner in a movie in which he played a baddie, and the sense of disconnect I experienced was nigh traumatic.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

In my childhood too.

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

You want to talk about disconnect? How about discovering that Jack Warner was the brother of Elsie and Doris Waters?

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"How about discovering that Jack Warner was the brother of Elsie and Doris Waters?"

Oh, I knew that. No problem with it.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

¿Que que?

Love, C.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"¿Que que?"

Wot?

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

That's what I said!

What?

Love, C.

[quilterbear.livejournal.com]

I agree!

[realthog.livejournal.com]

If you'd both follow the link to the New Scientist squib, you'd find that "Evening all" was the catchphrase of the very long-running BBC police series Dixon of Dock Green.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

As by now, K, your husband has doubtless crisply pointed out to you!

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

It's also the home of Lewisham's police station, apparently.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Letsby Avenue is?

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

Apparently. Opened in 2004; allegedly the largest police station in Europe.