Fire and Ice

After the last topic which isn’t anything I know much about, I decided to go for one that I am a bit more interested in - and Monkston Park also has relatively few street names so choosing this one next was a no-brainer! It would also give me a chance to go outside Wikipedia for the research, as I have far too many books on the London Underground, Tube stations and the like. I will also take this opportunity to plug the London Transport Museum , which has possibly the greatest shop in all museums , ever!  Before we jump into the Underground stations, a bit about Monkston Park. This is one of the newer developments, originating in the late 90s or early 2000. Interestingly, the Milton Keynes hoard was found here, which is a series of items made of gold, from the Bronze Ages and now in the British Museum. I wonder why they didn’t go with a related theme for the street names? However, I’m pleased they went with London Underground Stations. As I was compiling the list of street names from

Oldbrook is one of the estates near Central Milton Keynes and the streets are named after mostly famous cricketers or cricketing terms. Apparently, the street layout is based on the markings of a cricket pitch although having had a good look on Google maps , I personally can’t see it. Let me know if you do! This was a challenging estate to tackle for two reasons: one, there are lots of streets here so it took a while to check all the terms. The second, and possibly more important reason, is that I know very, very little about cricket. I find the game confusing and slow so it doesn’t really grab my attention, and it also seems to have its own language which can be impenetrable to those of us outside the sphere of its influence. This post risked being a very long list of people that were all cricketers and I don’t think that is very interesting, so I tried to find little bits of information that were a little more unusual and made these men (because they are ALL men) come alive a little