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Title: Definitive list of Block names in MC1?
Post by: mickarnshands on 16 August, 2016, 10:43:03 AM
Sorry if this has been covered before.  Has anyone ever compiled a list of the above?
Title: Re: Definitive list of Block names in MC1?
Post by: Steve Green on 16 August, 2016, 10:49:23 AM
John Caliber wrote a pretty exhaustive book called City of Dredd, which covered all the named places (not just blocks)

Not sure how you'd get hold of it though.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/City-Dredd-John-Caliber/dp/1447661354 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/City-Dredd-John-Caliber/dp/1447661354)
Title: Re: Definitive list of Block names in MC1?
Post by: I, Cosh on 16 August, 2016, 10:49:32 AM
Not that I'm aware of but I would wholeheartedly endorse such a project.

When do you plan to start?

I have compiled a list of every time it has ever been in Downlode...
Title: Re: Definitive list of Block names in MC1?
Post by: Steve Green on 16 August, 2016, 10:50:33 AM
Last update I remember...

https://judgetutorsemple.wordpress.com/2015/08/02/city-of-dredd-planned-relaunch-2016/ (https://judgetutorsemple.wordpress.com/2015/08/02/city-of-dredd-planned-relaunch-2016/)
Title: Re: Definitive list of Block names in MC1?
Post by: I, Cosh on 16 August, 2016, 10:52:40 AM
Quote from: Steve Green on 16 August, 2016, 10:49:23 AM
John Caliber wrote a pretty exhaustive book called City of Dredd, which covered all the named places (not just blocks)
Blimey. I've managed to miss this.
Title: Re: Definitive list of Block names in MC1?
Post by: TordelBack on 16 August, 2016, 11:00:59 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 16 August, 2016, 10:49:32 AM
I have compiled a list of every time it has ever been in Downlode...

The best of times and the worst of times? Or would you need to add another city to do that?
Title: Re: Definitive list of Block names in MC1?
Post by: Theblazeuk on 16 August, 2016, 12:02:37 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 16 August, 2016, 10:49:32 AM
Not that I'm aware of but I would wholeheartedly endorse such a project.

When do you plan to start?

I have compiled a list of every time it has ever been in Downlode...

Please share Cosh, I love those 'This is Downlode, the city that took your dreams and used them to decorate the shed" bits
Title: Re: Definitive list of Block names in MC1?
Post by: sheridan on 16 August, 2016, 12:41:34 PM
I've seen a few lists, most recently when there was a thread claiming there were no blocks named after women.
Title: Re: Definitive list of Block names in MC1?
Post by: mickarnshands on 16 August, 2016, 12:49:29 PM
Thanks.  Another unicorn of a book that will nag away at me incessantly...
Title: Re: Definitive list of Block names in MC1?
Post by: I, Cosh on 16 August, 2016, 01:01:10 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 16 August, 2016, 12:02:37 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 16 August, 2016, 10:49:32 AM
Not that I'm aware of but I would wholeheartedly endorse such a project.

When do you plan to start?

I have compiled a list of every time it has ever been in Downlode...

Please share Cosh, I love those 'This is Downlode, the city that took your dreams and used them to decorate the shed" bits
It's in a box somewhere. If I ever get a chance I'll look it out.
Title: Re: Definitive list of Block names in MC1?
Post by: Proudhuff on 16 August, 2016, 03:52:03 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 16 August, 2016, 12:41:34 PM
I've seen a few lists, most recently when there was a thread claiming there were no blocks named after women.

Grud on a Greenie! Who claimed that?

Enid Byton springs to mind not to mention Sylvia Plath...
Title: Re: Definitive list of Block names in MC1?
Post by: sheridan on 16 August, 2016, 05:15:43 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 16 August, 2016, 03:52:03 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 16 August, 2016, 12:41:34 PM
I've seen a few lists, most recently when there was a thread claiming there were no blocks named after women.

Grud on a Greenie! Who claimed that?

Enid Byton springs to mind not to mention Sylvia Plath...
It did seem like a strange claim to make - thinking about it, it may have been outside of the forum - probably not facebook, but maybe one of the geek / comic news websites.
Title: Re: Definitive list of Block names in MC1?
Post by: Fungus on 16 August, 2016, 05:31:15 PM
Yootha Joyce? Maybe I imagined that one.
Title: Re: Definitive list of Block names in MC1?
Post by: Frank on 16 August, 2016, 06:08:31 PM
Quote from: Fungus on 16 August, 2016, 05:31:15 PM
Yootha Joyce? Maybe I imagined that one.

Not a block, but still Megacity real estate. Midnight Surfer, prog 428: The Fountain of Yooth, erected by the Yootha Joyce memorial trust. When this topic came up before, I mentioned Sylvia Plath (Young Death) and LaToya Jackson* - probably the only time those two have been cited in the same breath.


* Ennis & Ezquerra's Taking Of Sector 123, Meg 2.10
Title: Re: Definitive list of Block names in MC1?
Post by: Steve Green on 17 August, 2016, 09:01:45 PM
Rita Tushingham, Betty Boop (OK a cartoon character but still), Indira Gandhi - sure there's quite a few.