YOU pointed out that “hardly a week seemed to pass without a dispute” at the Cowley car factories in your article about the engineers’ one-day strike (Memory Lane, June 23).
In 1973, the year of your photograph, Oxford City Council wished to name a road ‘Leyland Close’ to acknowledge its proximity to the British Leyland factory.
However, councillors pointed out that if it was called Leyland Close, it would not be long before people would add a ‘d’ to it, making it read ‘Leyland Closed’.
The road was therefore named Berry Close instead. One councillor quipped that that would be suitable as it was ‘Berry close to the Works’.
ANN SPOKES SYMONDS, Davenant Road, Oxford
- Memory Lane this week
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