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Immortal names from history that are right up your street

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From: Evening News - Scotland
Date: 20071030
Author:Joanna Vallely

WHILE on the surface, a 19th-century Edinburgh confectioner nicknamed "Sweetie Mill", Deacon Brodie's father and the works of Sir Walter Scott don't appear to have much in common, they have all been immortalised - by the city streets named after them.

But while having an avenue, lane or crescent named after you is an honour, in Edinburgh, those who have aspirations to make it into a city A to Z during their lifetimes will be disappointed.

Unlike in Stevenage, where council bosses are looking to honour the town's most famous son - 22-year-old racing driver Lewis Hamilton by naming a street ...

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