McGregors Road – Named after Donald McGregor (1851?-1909) McGregor’s Road is first mentioned in The Press in 1900 when the “live and dead stock” of Donald McGregor, of McGregor’s Road, Bromley, who is giving up dairy farming, is advertised for sale. A dairy farm in McGregor’s Road, the estate of the late Mrs McGregor, is advertised for sale in The Press in 1908. McGregor is a resident of the street in 1906, the year it first appears in street directories.
A reasonable of information from the library website. I found an entry on Papers Past dated 1877 about calling for tender for formation of the road plus additions to cottage and stables so it is mentioned earlier than 1900. It is highly likely that it was named after Donald McGregor. I couldn’t find any information on an Ancestry website but there is a Donald McGregor buried in the Addington cemetery. This Donald McGregor died in 1910.
This street falls in two suburbs, Linwood and Bromley.
Houses one side of the street and the Linwood cemetery on the other side of the street plus Bromley Park. Mostly older houses in reasonable condition. None of them stood out for me but did like the fence at one house. Didn’t see any very old original houses here and they all seemed to be 1950s to 1970s style. I used to have a friend who lived here and I used to visit frequently when we worked together. Our sons were roughly the same age. That is quite a few years ago.
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