One attempt was made to include the old name in this sign. Sundaram refers to a prayer hall (?) further down the lane, which explains the plaque below the road sign. But "Bugys Road"? (In the Tamizh version above, it easily reads as "Bugs Road"). Well, that's a little bit of weathering and mis-spelling at work. In the early 1800s, the senior partner of the firm Pugh & Breithaupt bought some land on the stretch between Chamier's Road and the Adayar river. When his garden house was built there, he called the place Pugh's Gardens. Naturally (for that time), the road leading to Pugh's Gardens came to be called Pugh's Road. Over a couple of centuries, not only has the road been re-named, but Mr. Joseph Pugh has had the misfortune of his own name being mangled beyond recognition!
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I remember to have read in Readers Digest years back, that the President of a newly independent African country wanted to erase all marks of the Commonwealth & announced that from the next day all motorists would observe righthand traffic.The embarassed Tpt Minister rushed to him to remind that the drivers were to be educated etc. The president made a correction that next day onwards the light vehicles would observe risghthand traffic & heavy vehicles left hand traffic!!!!!
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