Great Western Coffee Shop

Only rail because it came up as a publication including a rail story - but I love the publication name the Stray Ferret (https://thestrayferret.co.uk/highway-bosss-major-concern-over-one-lane-traffic-option-for-station-parade/).  Lighter side - brought a smile to my face!

Other publication / people's / places names that bring a smile?   Please don't suggest we meet in Loggerheads to discuss this after lockdown ...

Known to all patrons of the Imber Bus: "Brazen Bottom"

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(I think the bridge in the photo is part of the new Imber by-pass  :D)

Is the link behind the picture intentional?

No, it's the link for the photo. I couldn't get rid of it - unless I deleted it - then no photo of course. Never had it happen before.

It can be done - if you delete all the [url]...[/ulr] bit before and after the (http://...) link itself.

Thanks for that, I had a good look at the link and there was some odd text in it. Didn't look like like anything I had been doing previously. Anyway, it worked  :)

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I encountered a couple in my waterway magazine days. Will Drown from Crewsaver Lifejackets was rightly celebrated. But I always had a soft spot for Lee King, maintenance manager for the Canal & River Trust.

(Hello again! Sorry. Have been away for a while. Life has been manic...)

I am a bit surprised that a police officer with such a name has not changed it ! Or sought permission to be known and identified at work by an assumed name.

An historic unfortunate name was a Mr Burstall, boiler engineer !

I used to know an RNLI volunteer, with the given name of Storm !

A friend of mine was once a school music teacher before moving to pastures new.  One of his pupils was the son of a Mr and Mrs Pipe.  But how, in all good reason, could you justify their decision to give him the first name of Dwaine?

Many years ago, I was working in the Safeway (as was) Petrol Station in Taunton. We had a regular customer who had an interesting name. First time I saw his credit card I laughed out loud. Got a verbal warning for that after he complained. I was young and my puerile sense of humour got the better of me.

His name?

Roger Mycock.

Oh, and I've just done an electoral roll search. There's what I presume is a daughter at the same address. Hannah Mycock. Say that quickly... ;D

We had moments of childish humour at an old place of work when we received an enquiry from a Pat and Paul Mycock.

About 40 years ago, shortly after I started working in the IT (DP as it was then) department of a life assurance company, I was investigating a system fault which occurred during the update of the company's main customer file. Although not the cause of the fault, the name of the customer being processed was a Mr Oswald Alan Kenneth Coffin. (GDPR I hear you shout - this person was 78 years old in 1981!).  A very appropriate name for somebody paying £1 a week for funeral expenses, whose entry in the agent's collecting book would have been Mr OAK Coffin!

A customer called Lydia Kettle caused a junior bank clerk friend of mine to excuse himself temporarily from the counter. And had a tale of a rather pompous Rosemary Soul who insisted on using her initial instead of first name. Stop tittering at the back!...  ;D

Taunton had a dental practice where the partners were, in the 1980's, Gilfillan, Shovelin & Blood.

Their name featured in an episode of 'That's Life!'