JACKMay I compliment you on your choice of cartoons
Your question has me well & truly stumped
I don't know why some streets in the centre are called "gate". I also don't know why we have "boulevards" (Midsummer & Silbury) either
I can remember Milton Keynes being built. It's very modern & soulless - based on an American grid road system. We've had Starbucks in the UK for donkeys years. Costa have actually got a cafe here in our hospital. Very very lucrative considering the prices they charge. A captive audience & there's always a queue. I will investigate further & try to come up with an answer about gates!
Now if you want a proper "gate" try this one for size
I can't remember if you visited York on your trips over here. Now that's a wonderful old walled Roman city
Bags of character.
I was looking for a cricket joke as the World Cup is still struggling along not helped by the bloody awful cold wet weather we're having at the moment
Found this instead which made me smile
There are few greater culture clashes than a coming together of a brash Australian cricketer and a member of the English aristocracy. When the Queen and Prince Philip were introduced to the Aussie cricket team at Lord's in 1981 an over excited Rodney Hogg bellowed to a team-mate: "Jeez, she hasn’t got bad legs for an old sheila, has she?"
Just going to switch to professional receptionist mode