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HERE’S a suggestion. With all the housebuilding that going on in and around Worcester, current and proposed, how about reviving some of the old street names? We all know how much developers are keen to show they care, allegedly scouring the record books for appropriate historical reference points, but there comes a time when you can’t keep naming everything after Sir Edward Elgar, worthy chap though he may have been. In an effort to give them a few helpful steers, they might like to scan their beadies down a list I happened across the other day. Not sure when it was compiled, but I guess its contents covered the work of civic officials over several centuries.