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30-05-2016, 15:31
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IRENE BAINBRIDGE (Was DAVIES)
I used to live on DUNNYSHOP AVENUE,does anyone know where the name came from?
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30-05-2016, 18:46
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Re: IRENE BAINBRIDGE (Was DAVIES)
I will ask the chair of the Lancashire Place-Name Society......Retlaw will be able to tell us when the name first appeared. I do know that there was a farm of that name in that area.
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30-05-2016, 19:02
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Re: IRENE BAINBRIDGE (Was DAVIES)
Didn`t some Australian sell toilets on there..
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01-06-2016, 20:09
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Re: IRENE BAINBRIDGE (Was DAVIES)
Why didn't I think of that
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01-06-2016, 20:41
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Re: IRENE BAINBRIDGE (Was DAVIES)
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02-06-2016, 07:40
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Re: IRENE BAINBRIDGE (Was DAVIES)
The authority on place-names, Ekwall, says it relates to a valley ( hop/hope) and a person called Dunn
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