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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

[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.