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Article: War hero, but they can't spell his name on a sign; Residents angry over council's street blunder.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2005
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Byline: LECH MINTOWT-CZYZ
WHEN the heroic Captain Charles Algernon Fryatt was executed by the Germans in 1916 such was the outrage that virtually everyone came to know his name.
Horticulturalists called a tulip after him, a hotelier renamed his business in his honour, the Government boosted his widow's pension, the public paid for a memorial plaque in Liverpool Street train station and Haringey council dedicated a street to him. But now, almost 90 years later, the memories have faded and when council workmen went to Fryatt Road in Tottenham to install two new street signs, no one had noticed the hero's name was misspelled as "Fyratt". It was only when ...