Acacia Avenue

Acacia Avenue is a cliché in British culture — shorthand for an average, unexceptional, middle-class suburban street.

There are at least sixty Acacia Avenues in the United Kingdom, nine of them within Greater London.
There is an Acacia Avenue in Ottawa, Ontario, and also in Stockton, California.

Mentions in popular culture

• Iron Maiden recorded a song entitled "22 Acacia Avenue" on their third album, The Number of the Beast, about a brothel in which their fictional prostitute character Charlotte the Harlot works. The closest Acacia Avenue to their native Leyton, east London is in Hornchurch (though there is an Acacia Road in Leytonstone).
• Henry Cass directed a 1945 film entitled 29 Acacia Avenue.
• Bananaman lived at 29 Acacia Road.
• 22 Acacia Avenue was a popular Bulletin Board System in Boise, Idaho, in the early 1990s.

External links

• "The street where you live" - BBC News
• "Lives of Acacia Avenue revealed" - BBC News
• "Acacia Avenue - where they never grumble" - The Guardian