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Foden Lane and Dennis Lane are both too new for library website. Both these lanes run off Prospect Place and are possibly named after Dennis Foden. I will need to read the books Divine Rock the Quarryman’s Gift by Greg C Smith and History of Halswell by Graeme C Penney as the developers took the …

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Forge Close in Halswell and is too new for library website. I don’t think that I need to explain the meaning of forge. This tiny street runs off Tempering Drive. The houses here are mostly finished being built. It looks like a wee walkway is going to be developed here to join up with the …

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Tempering Drive in Halswell and is too new for library website. This street runs off Muirhill St and so new that it didn’t have any character for me. There are still houses being built here but a couple are occupied. The name tempering is fairly obvious and mostly used these days in connection with steel. …

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Spalling Road in Halswell and is too new for library website. The council website said that it was named after a 16 pound hammer used to split and shape stone for building materials. I went googling expecting it to have been named after a person but I was wrong. Spall means chip or splinter of …

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Ruston Lane in Halswell- too new for library website. Another street that I wasn’t actually able to walk as they are still building houses here and most of the street was blocked off. This tiny street runs off Muirhill St. I found information on the council website which said that the street is named after …

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Quarters Place in Halswell – Named after the old stone cottage where many of the Halswell Quarry workers lived and which still remains in its original state. In the Quarry View subdivision. The developers submitted street names having a connection with the Halswell Quarry, its location and its product. Named in 2012. A small amount …

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Prospect Place in Halswell – too new for library website. This street runs off Provincial Rd in the new subdivision Quarry Park. At the end of the street was a walkway to what looked like a reserve. The houses are very new here and at least one or two looked occupied. The name relates to …

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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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