Gateshead Locomotive Depot - A depot remembered

[Hayman]

Sorry I don’t understand your reply

I was comparing the colour ochre with that of khaki. It seems the name Ochre was given to the former industrial property to reflect the colour of the stone from which the buildings were constructed. Having said that, rural land built on in Theale, Berkshire, has been given the idyllic name "Ochre Meadows" by the company constructing houses by the River Thames in open countryside. Today the term 'mews' has become fashionable to describe any small housing areas; its connection with horse stabling being ignored or forgotten. As for my jocular "Khaki Close", there is a Khaki Road in Pakistan, leading to the town of Khaki.