1. The street is named after the famous South African leader, Nelson Mandela. 2. Mandela had become so famous that streets were named for him in cities all over the world. 3. This close to Woolwich Arsenal, it was logical that they should name a street after it. 4. At lunchtime, crowds snake around the corner toward the river for which the street is named. 5. Both have streets named after them. 6. A downtown street is named after J. Robert Oppenheimer, the University of California physics professor who led the secret effort to develop the first atomic weapons. 7. A city street has been named in his honor. 8. A city that has a street named for Rose, even though he did time for cheating on taxes and is banned from baseball for betting on the game. 9. A city that named its streets after artists and writers, not politicians, was my kind of city. 10. But the street is named after the seventh president. |