WHAT'S IN A NAME?

Driving around the island, I am struck by the quaint and whimsical street names that pop out at every curve of the narrow roads.  How could you not be smiling when you meander down Happy Talk Lane?   What about Finger Point Road - surely there must be something at the end of that road to satisfy the curious - what might it be pointing out?  Billy Goat Hill - a reminder of childhood nursery rhymes surely?  Maybe even Witchery Drive, or Step Mother Drive, and Old Maids Lane.

Slippery Hill, or Wreck Hill - watch out there!.   Then there is Featherbed Alley, and Sleepy Hollow Drive.  What about Sofar Lane, or Well Bottom Lane?  Can you imagine the cottages in Tea Rose Lane?  Not so sure about Smallpox Bay.  Maybe not the longwinded Scribes and Pharisees either.  Did someone just get tired of naming new streets - No Name Lane?  The unique:  Cockroach Rock, Monkey Hole, Hungry Bay Lane.   The sentimental: Peace Haven Drive, Loyalty Lane.  No doubt there is a story behind Pain Lane and Suffering Lane - in close proximity to each other no less. 

Some distinctly military type road names attesting to a bygone era when Bermuda was a British Navy stronghold - like Grenadier Lane, Soldier Point, Sentinel Hill, Redcoat Lane, Military Road, Khyber Pass, Gunner Bay, Battery Close.  Add the piratical to that as well - Pieces of Eight Alley.

And then there are some of the island names: World's End Island, or Stipple Island.  Followed by Rabbit, Mouse, Duck, Goose, Hen and Turtle Islands. - sounds like someone was going to bat for the more humble animals.  And not to leave out the quaint: Little Crumb Island, and Little Rogue Island.

And last, but not least: we live on Convict Bay Lane.