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Joseph, I agree the Terminal Restaurant sounds unappealing, but at least you could eat there. You reminded me of a small cafe in my home town (Barrow-in-Furness, for the record) which closed for lunch. I swear I am not making that up.

Joseph, there's another part to the thing about Pontefract. In the UK at least there's a type of candy called a Pontefract cake, which is a soft piece of liquorice about the size and shape of a small coin, which was derived from liquorice grown near Pontefract (duh ...). People asking for it...

Just remembered that my wife has a cousin called Ian Michael Lovely (IM Lovely). There are a whole host of unusual English surnames (mostly from rural areas) - Ramsbottom, Cakebread, Gotobed, Cocks. I believe most of them derive from modern pronunciations of older names which were far more...

I was at school with Ian Paul Downward, which sounded okay until you saw it on official documents ('I.P. Downward'). I know a Professor Reason (a psychologist). There's a butcher's shop owned by an A. Butcher (the sign outside read 'A. Butcher, Meat Purveyor'). I know of a Richard Everard (think...