Interesting...

[girlsteve.livejournal.com]

I've just started yet another new job, and one of the girls I work with is named Bexley. She goes by Bex and I get the impression she doesn't like it much - when I asked about it, she responded rather dryly "I'm named after a train station". I don't know if that's true. She also has a sister named Albany (pronounced with a long A, like All - bany) and two brothers Crayford (nn Cray) and Eltham (prnouced Elt-ham, with a hard T)

WDYT?

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[frost.livejournal.com]

From Wikipedia:

"Bexleyheath railway station is in the London Borough of Bexley in south east London, and is in Travelcard Zone 5."

"Crayford railway station is in the London Borough of Bexley in south-east London, and is in Travelcard Zone 6."

"Eltham railway station is a railway station in Eltham, in the London Borough of Greenwich and on the Bexleyheath Line."

"Albany Park railway station is in the London Borough of Bexley in south-east London (Travelcard Zone 5)."

D:

[girlsteve.livejournal.com]

you ARE kidding me? She's ACTUALLY named after a train station?

So wish I'd picked a different reaction to what I assumed was a joke....ooops :S

[nandy-pandy.livejournal.com]

See, if I didn't know that, I'd have thought they were pretty cool names! Now it's just kind of LOL and :(.

[myiris.livejournal.com]

Honestly, just going by the sounds of these names and by the fact that I've never heard of any of those locations, I like the sound of Bexley and Eltham. A lot, actually.

[b-gum.livejournal.com]

i've always loved Albany, but i live a short 15 minutes from beautiful Albany, Indiana, so yea - not working for me ;)

that's really the only name i'm fond of in the group, though... i guess they're just really train people?

[sweetest-asylum.livejournal.com]

her parents travel a lot?
i know a couple who named their daughter after the river in alaska she was conceived by.

[lipsty.livejournal.com]

I think that those train stations are all about 10 minutes from each other, so they're probably just on the route to work!

[sweetest-asylum.livejournal.com]

ah. well that's a little less interesting. unless the parents had the equivalent of mile-high but on the train, but that's a bit creepy.

[tortallian.livejournal.com]

And not really something you'd want to do on a train in London.

[sweetest-asylum.livejournal.com]

that would depend on lots of things.

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

I like those names, apart from crayford.

bexley and (new) albany are suburbs near me. cool!

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I adore Albany, it's on my list for boys.

[longlostblue.livejournal.com]

Bexley is awful.