Bob Blastock who, as well as being active in a bewildering variety of other local groups, is one of the leading lights in the Over Stoke History group, has told me that the rectory that Rectory Road was named after is actually where the Bridge Ward Social club is now, and that Rectory road was actually built on the grounds of the old rectory. He also pointed out, and this is far better known, that the station that Station Street was named after was actually on Croft Street where the EUR (Eastern Union Railway) pub kept the memory of the station until entertainment licences, smoking bans and the other nannying dictates of our modern state shut it down like so many other pubs.
Does anyone know of any other road names in the ward with an odd history?
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