Appropriate names

There was a fish and chip shop owner near here whose surname was Haddock and his shop was called Haddock’s Plaice.

There's a firm of funeral directors called Box Brothers!

Sorry, just noticed previous posters have beaten me to it. And yes, it was in Blackpool.

When I was a child my parents talked of the man whose name was on the Rates demands - Mr B Quick.

At one time the Treasurer of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland was Mr MacMonies.

Back in the 60s I worked for a solicitor called Goode and one of his partners was called Cheetham. Their ambition was to find a solicitor to join them call Proper. Sadly a Mr Proper was never found. As a result Messrs Cheetham, Goode & Proper never set up business together.

My parents' doctor is called Dr Feltwell.

My cookery teacher was Miss Cake, the log man was Mr Wood, and the Vicar was ???? Happy Families, anyone??

The inventor of the Flush toilet as we know it today was a Mr. Thomas Crapper. his invention was a huge success amongst the Royal Households and various ornate designs were produced, including those with a painted Eye designed for Gentlemen to aim for!

The phrase ‘Going for a Crap‘ was actually a way of showing off ones wealth and status in being able to afford and own one of his highly prized inventions!

Living in Singapore, Chinese funeral directors 'Go Soon'.

My childhood dentist was Mr.Smiley ?

HF 59, are you in N.Ireland?

A dentist called Mr. Payne!
Oh yes, my friend's husband's urologist was called Mr. Beacock - a cause of many sniggers I fear even at our age!!

My Mum worked with a Rose Bush - she had married into that name of course!

A firm of undertakers near us is called Death.

Also my dad once had a colleague called Mr Sorearse, pronounced Sorry R Say!

As a secretary in my younger years I typed out a letter to
a Mr I.P. Daley ?
Still makes me chuckle.

I used to know a Miss Cane and she married a Mr Shufflebottom.

When I lived in a Plymouth back in the 80’s there was an antique dealer living in a beautiful Edwardian terraced house I had to pass on the way to my Doctor’s in the Stoke Area. I wish in those days we had a camera phone because the lovely and ornate house plaque outside gave the name Robin B’Astard. It used to make me chuckle and I often wonder if he’s still there and was it genuine or did he just have a great sense of humour?

I worked years ago at a really big NHS hospital, the man in charge of H&S was called Ken Wood, although he wasn't a mixer of any kind.

Our head teacher in the days when corporal punishment was the rule was Mr. Cain. The school cook at my children’s school was Mrs, Cook.

Had a friend at school whose surname was Coffin - her family was the local undertaker. At the time it didn’t connect how apt that was. I was only 7 ?

Our local vet, considering the high vet bills, Mr Dunwell

Just after the war, my mother saw a local estate agent called “Waite, Waite and Hope” - very apt considering the acute shortage of property!

I knew a music therapist whose surname was Hornblower.!