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[example22]

I'm teaching in our Manchester centre this week, and the training rooms all have names. They were named before we moved in, so nobody knows where the names came from, and it's bugging me.

So, puzzle fans, what's the link between Washington, Bay, Brooklyn, Utah and Tyne?

Comments

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

Bridges? There doesn't seem to be a particularly famous Utah bridge but maybe the person who came up with name thought there was.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Is that where the old London Bridge was sold to?

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

Arizona, I think.

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

Lake Havasu City. I have driven across it. We stopped in Lake Havasu City to look around - there is a 'British Pub' by it but you had to wait to be seated so we humphed and went somewhere else instead. Don't think we stayed the night there. We may well have gone on the way from Palm Springs to Flagstaff.

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

Bridges was my first idea as well... perhaps it's a catastrophic misremembering of the D-Day beaches?

By the way, can anyone confirm or deny the rumour that the UK beaches (Gold, Sword, Juno) were originally all going to be types of fish, and that Juno was a last-minute name change because the top brass couldn't face the idea of thousands of troops dying on Jelly Beach?

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard that, but there were strongpoint targets codenamed Cod and Trout, which kind of supports it...

[example22.livejournal.com]

Yes, bridges is the best idea anyone here has had, too. Utah is a bit of a problem, though, and I can't think of a particularly famous Washington bridge either (though there must be loads of them in the US).

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

George Washington Bridge, across the Hudson river between Manhatten and New Jersey. Famed, IIRC, as a place for teenagers to go to score drugs.

Utah is still a problem.

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

There is a famous natural bridge in Southern Utah

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

Yes, I wondered whether it was that, seems a bit weird to say Utah on the grounds that Utah has a famous bridge, however.

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

As I probably said, I went to a meeting in a building in New England where the rooms were named after New England rivers. Therefore there was a 'Moose training room'. I didn't see any moose being trained.

[sparkymark.livejournal.com]

Tunnels?

Natural Bridges National Monument

[asajeffrey.livejournal.com]

In Utah... http://www.nps.gov/nabr/