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Re: Footy Trams and Trains (was Re: Photos X47, 8124, progress at Appleton Dock)

Christopher_Martin GORDON wrote:
 
> Sorry I forgot to Add with Princes Park it is the park belonging to
> the Prince, therfore in correct grammar it would be Prince's Park, but
> as I have said No place name has an apostrophe, so it was removed (in
> the 1930's ??) hence Princes Park.  It is not the plural.
> 
> : No place name in Victoria (and possibly Australia) has an
> : apostrophe in the name.  It was changed a while ago.
> : Hence it is Princes Park.


Around the corner from me is a private primary school, called King's.
Well, at present it is called King's. That's what the sign outside says.
Until recently it was called Kings.

David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand