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Penny Lane in Hoon Hay – nothing on library website. Only three houses here and it is a private lane. There is a childcare business called Penny Lane on Hoon Hay Rd next to Penny Lane. The lane was possibly named after the business or it was the other way round.

Maryhill Ave in Hoon Hay – First appears in street directories in 1953. A tiny amount of information from the library website and I couldn’t find out the reason for name. It was either someone’s name or a place name in Scotland. Several entries in Papers Past and it was a new subdivision in 1953. …

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Rima Lane in Hoon Hay – nothing on library website and the houses were built in the 1980s. I suspect that the street was named after a person but couldn’t find any information about it. There were only 4 entries on Papers Past dated 1989 and they were ads for houses. It was a tiny …

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Wyn St in Hoon Hay – First appears in street directories in 1952.A tiny amount of information from the library website and I couldn’t find out a reason for the name of the street but suspect that it was a surname.A lot of information on Papers Past and there was an article in 1957 about …

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Downing Street in Hoon Hay – First appears in street directories in 1951. A tiny amount of information from the library website and I couldn’t find out how the street got it’s name but suspect that it is a person’s surname. Because of a certain famous street in the UK there were thousands of entries …

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Cedars Street in Hoon Hay – Gee Street was incorporated into Cedars Street. Gee Street first appears in street directories in 1955. Cedars Street first appears in 1957. The section running from Mathers Road was named Cedars Street; the section running from Kevin Street was named Gee Street. Gee Street was incorporated into Cedars Street …

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Capri Lane in Hoon Hay – nothing on library website yet the oldest house here is from 1950s plus there is a house from 1960s. The rest of the houses were mostly built in 1970s. Couldn’t find out how the street got it’s name. Not much information on Papers Past. Sections were for sale in …

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Bencard Place in Hoon Hay – Named after Christian Bencard and his wife. Norway Place was originally proposed as the name of the street in 1966. Bencard Place was proposed by the developer, John Taylor, in 1967, and it was officially named in 1968. Bencard was a Dane who married an English businesswoman and then …

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I have finished walking and writing up the suburb of Westmorland. In Papers Past I found an article about the the development dated 1982. The subdivision was described as a modern Cashmere and to be an exclusive subdivision. The developers Wayne and Bruce Francis purchased Happy Home Farm from their father in 1958 and decided …

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Ravensdale Rise in Westmorland – Named after Ravensdale Park, a village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire. Named to continue the theme in the subdivision of naming streets after places in historic Westmorland in England, since 1974 part of Cumbria. First appears in street directories in 1984. A small amount of …

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