Calle de Fermín Izquierdo
It recalls one Fermín Izquierdo, of whom no record survives, named when Valdeacederas passed to Madrid with the annexation of Chamartín de la Rosa.
The calle de Fermín Izquierdo is a short stretch of Valdeacederas, in Tetuán, dedicated to a person of whom no trace remains. Who he was, when he lived, or what he did to earn a plaque: none of it has reached us.
The blank fits the neighbourhood’s history. Valdeacederas grew on the outskirts, on land belonging to the municipality of Chamartín de la Rosa, until Madrid annexed it in 1948 and split it between the districts of Tetuán and Chamartín. The incorporation forced many streets to be renamed to undo duplicated names, and in that wave came neighbours, owners and local figures of whom barely any memory remains. Fermín Izquierdo may have been one of them.
On its pavement now stands a new-build housing development that has borrowed the name, while the blue plaque still points to someone no one can place.