Where did Slab Square and Kamikaze Island even come from?
If you were a newcomer to our fair city, you'd probably cotton on pretty quickly that our castle isn't really a castle as such. And you might get used - within a few weeks or so - to the fact that our one-way system is designed to drive you insane, not help you get through the city centre.
And it's fair to say people weren't initially impressed by the replacement for the old cobbled square. In 1881, John Chaworth Musters of Colwick sold the land between Loughborough Road and Musters Road for housing development. All of the houses built were of a good standard. In fact, they were of such a good standard that the rumour went around that, if you could afford to live in one, the only food you'd be able to afford with the money left over would be bread and lard.Stabbo No-one seems to know the exact reason why Stapleford is known as Stabbo - it just is.
The roundabout is no longer there, having been replaced by a series of traffic lights more complicated than the warning system on the space shuttle. It's not quite as kamikaze - but you wouldn't want to go through it on your driving test.
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