There Beneath The Blue Suburban Skies--More On The Rumor

As I said in my January 7th. post, the city of Milton Keynes was a grand design by the English government to build a planned city.  The M1 highway in the area has many roundabouts.  Here is a nice view of one from a 1967 British Pathe film.  Was one of them mentioned in the song Penny Lane?
 Milton Keynes started out in 1967, effectively, as a suburb of London.  Remember the lyrics in Penny Lane: "Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes/There beneath the blue suburban skies"? 
Before the big plan began, the area was made up of villages and rural areas.  As I said in my February 13th. post, the Grand Union Canal ran through the area.  I found a book called Walking Canals (David & Charles Inc., 1984) that describes the area around the canals in the summer:
     "Summer is the least satisfactory season of the year for towpath walking.  Canalside vegetation tends to grow with extra luxuriance and the aggressive greenery conceals objects of interest such as mileposts and boundary markers.  The smaller canalside buildings may be completely obscured and the surrounding countryside screened from view."  Remember the lyric from Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds that describes an area where "you drift past the flowers that grow so incredibly high"?

So my point is that I think the rumor that Paul was involved in a car crash--or in some other incident--in the area of Milton Keynes is true.  I think the 1967 songs Penny Lane, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, and A Day In The Life describe incidents from his mishaps.
                                More on this later.
                                ---paulumbo