Talk:Deansgate

Royal Bank of Scotland

The building mentioned in this article belongs to ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLANT, not BANK OF SCOTLAND. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.25.46.67 (talk) 23:20, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, I've changed it. Could someone check to be sure though? David 10:30, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

It is definately the Royal Bank of Scotland. BTW, that image of the Manchester Evening News may have to go soon as the MEN have relocated to a new building nearby and that old one is currently in the process of being demolished. Robert Mercer 22:45, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Derivation of the name

I've replaced this unsourced and (to me at least) rather improbable version of the derivation of the name Deansgate with a sourced version:

The road is named because it passes through one of Manchester's city gates (since demolished), located next to the Cathedral (Dean referring in this case to the clergy of the Cathedral).

--Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 20:31, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Interestingly, http://en.luquay.com/wiki/Image:Map_of_Manchester_1801.PNG shows the southern end being called 'Alport Street'. More information [1] I wonder when the name changed? Parrot of Doom (talk) 13:53, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

West over sea : studies in Scandinavian sea-borne expansion and settlement before 1300 : a festschrift in honour of Dr. Barbara E. Crawford has most of a long article about the etymology of Deansgate and other 'gata' names around GM. See p=451. Any takers? --ClemRutter (talk) 10:26, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

KML

Deansgate is the first UK road article to have a KML file attached. Much discussion has been had at Geographic Coordinates project and this is being used as a proof of concept.See KML Tutorial for more info.--ClemRutter (talk) 12:26, 11 February 2012 (UTC)