Destructor

The humpbacked old hags of fairytales had real-life incarnations who roamed London – as strange pub names and signs testify. Now these are disappearing along with their stories.
Guardian: Taming of the Shrews

There must be similar stories about every city. It’s particularly entertaining to trace the history of Colombo’s street names. Everybody still knows what you mean if you say Green Path (instead of Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha) or Duplication Road (instead of R.A. De Mel Mawatha), but did you know there used to be a road called Destructor Road? That’s where all the giant robots lived.