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Originally Posted by susie123

I wonder if the street name actually is in honour not of Bonaparte, but of Louis Napoeon, later Napoleon III, who was Emperor of France at the time of the Crimean War.

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That's more like it. Boney's nephew spent alot of time in Southport and there is some evidence that the post-1848 Paris rebuilding - with it's wide boulevards and splendid shops - was based in part on Lord Street, Southport.

Which makes me think.....suppose that instead of staying by the seaside. the last Emperor of France had resided 35 miles east...instead of the Champs Elysees, there could be Blackburn Rd, Paris...instead of Wallace fountains, Ossy passoirs.... instead of the Centre George Pompidou, the Centre Peter Britcliffe...... instead of the Eiffel Tower..Le Panopticon d'Accy.....