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Bellows Close in Halswell- too new for library website. I will confess that I didn’t actually walk this street as it is so new that they are still building houses here and the footpath and road was blocked with vehicles belonging to the builders. The name of the street is fairly obvious as most names …

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Hastings Street in Waltham and Sydenham- Formerly Gordon Street and Andrew Street. May have been named after two Sydenham Borough councillors of the time. Re-named Hastings Street and later Hastings Street East and West. Darwin Street was named after Charles Robert Darwin (1809- 1882). The purchase of Gordon Street was discussed at a meeting of …

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Vienna St in Waltham- Part of Thackeray Street. Named after William Makepeace Thackeray (1811- 1863). Re-named Vienna Street. Named after the city of Vienna because Thackeray supposedly had connections with this city In 1981 the Brougham Street expressway extension cut several streets in two. One of these was Thackeray Street. The council decided to change …

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Hassals Lane in Waltham – Named after Thomas Maberly Hassal (1834- 1879). Hassal lived at The Oaks in Opawa. First appears in street directories in 1892.A small amount of information from the library website and this street is now considered to be in Waltham rather than Opawa. Very little information on Papers Past. A couple …

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Korimako Lane, Karoro Lane and Hoiho Lane and these lanes are too new to be on the library website. They are probably private lanes as well but the signs didn’t say this. There are 90 houses here built by Otautahi Community Housing Trust and Brougham Village used to be here. The housing complex was only …

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Goldsmith Place in Waltham -Oliver Goldsmith Street and Goldsmith Street. Named after Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774). Goldsmith was the author of The Vicar Of Wakefield. One of the “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of the Sydenham Borough Council on 19 January 1880. First appears in street directories as …

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Domett St in Waltham – Formerly Goethe Street. Named after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749- 1832). Re-named Domett Street. Named after Alfred Domett (1811- 1887). Goethe was a German playwright. Goethe Street is first mentioned in The Press in1886. First appears in street directories in 1911. Re-named Domett Street in 1917 at the request of …

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Cecil Place in Waltham – Horsley Street and Cecil Street. Probably named after Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury (1831- 1903). Horsley Street was re-named Cecil Street on 31 October 1898 at the suggestion of Harman and Stevens. Probably re-named to continue the theme of “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington …

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Bunyan St in Waltham – Named after John Bunyan (1628- 1688) Bunyan was an author who wrote Pilgrim’s Progress. One of the “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of the Sydenham Borough Council on 19 January 1880. Bunyan Street is first mentioned in the Star in 1886 in …

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Buffon St in Waltham – Named after Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788)Buffon was a French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author. One of the “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of the Sydenham Borough Council on 19 January 1880. First appears in street directories in 1887.A small …

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