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Lindores Street – formerly St Leonards Street first appears in street directories in 1911. Re-named Lindores Street on 1 September 1948 when 120 street were renamed. Not much information from the library website. The former name of St Leonards would be from Hastings area in the UK but I will have research Lindores when I …

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Vanadium Place – There was no information on library website for this street. The only meaning that I could find for Vanadium was that it is an element on the periodic table and that the element is named after the Vanadis the old Norse name for the god Freyja.A business area running off Wrights Rd. …

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Antigua Street – Named after Antigua, a colonial bishopric, Antigua in the West Indies. The section of the street south of Moorhouse Avenue was formerly named Windmill Road. Named after the flourmill erected in 1856 by William Derisley Wood (1824-1904). It was on the site of the Canterbury Brewery which was demolished following the earthquakes …

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Walsall Street – Probably named after Walsall, a city in West Midlands, England. Not much information on the library website. Mostly council housing and I didn’t feel that comfortable walking here.There is a small reserve on this street where I have hidden a cache.

Jerrold Street North/Jerrold Street South – formerly Boundary Road, Douglas Jerrold Street and Jerrold Street West. Brights Road and Hamilton Street were incorporated into Jerrold Street. Jerrold Street was named after Douglas William Jerrold (1803- 1857). Boundary Road is an alternative name. Jerrold Street. One of the “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and …

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Clarence Street South – Pigeon’s Lane and Clarence Road. Formerly Pigeon’s Lane. Named after Alfred Pigeon (1824-1893). Re-named Clarence Road, later Street. The name is derived from the honour of Clare in Suffolk (an honour is the estate of a tenant-in-chief of the Crown), Pigeon owned a farm in 1858 which ran from Riccarton Road …

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Meredith Street – Probably named after George Meredith (1828- 1909). Meredith was an English novelist and poet. Probably named to continue the theme of “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham. A small amount of information from the library website. This street is next to Addington Park and has the usual mixture of …

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Chatham Street – formerly Dudley Street – May have the same derivation as the Chatham Islands which were discovered by Lieutenant William R. Broughton of the Chatham in 1791. Dudley Street first appears in street directories in 1903. Re-named Chatham Street on 27 September 1948. [The newspaper report of the time says Boyd Street was …

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James K Baxter Place – Named after James Keir Baxter (1926- 1972) – Baxter was a poet, postman, teacher, dramatist, writer and social critic. Named on 21 May 1973. A small amount of information on the library website. Council housing called Norman Kirk Courts are on this street. There are are also a few old …

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