Shotfirer Lane in Halswell – Name given to the men who worked with explosives to dislodge rock from the rock face at the Halswell Quarry. In the Quarry View subdivision. Named in 2012.

A small amount of information from the library website. This tiny street runs from Provincial Rd to Findlay Ave and there is a footpath on only one side of the street. Not many houses here and the best thing about this street is it’s name.

Provincial Road in Halswell – Named because the Provincial Chambers was one of the early buildings to use the blue greystone from the Halswell Quarry. In the Quarry View subdivision. The developers submitted street names having a connection with the Halswell Quarry, its location and its product. Named in 2012A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name of the street. This looks one of the first streets in the Quarry View subdivision and houses date from 2013 to 2021. The houses here are huge and a couple looked quite nice. I was geocaching here a week ago and afterwards decided to walk the streets in the area. There is a tiny reserve on the Kennedys Bush Rd end and also one on the Muirhill Rd end.

Pegson Lane and it is too new to be on the library website. I didn’t walk this one as there wasn’t a footpath and looks like a private driveway as the lane is so tiny. A bit of googling gave me the information that pegson is a crushing machine using in quarries and mining

Napper Place in Halswell is too new for library website. The council website said it is named for a hammer. I couldn’t find a napper hammer when I googled but found the word knapping in connection with a hammer that is used with flint and similar rocks. This street runs from the corner of Hoyle Way and Spalling Rd. There is a wee reserve next to part of this street. Unusually for this person who normally dislikes modern streets and houses I liked this street. A couple of the houses had character and one had a fantastic letterbox made out of wood. I also had a lovely chat with one of the residents and he had been in the airforce and was based at Wigram. Our chat was about the naming of the streets in Wigram.

Leyland Lane in Halswell and is too new for library website. Another street that was blocked by vehicles belonging to builders plus there wasn’t a footpath to be able to walk on. I dislike streets with no footpaths. My best guess for the name of this street is the Leyland truck which was produced by Foden Trucks. Edwin Foden set up this company and he was the grandfather of Dennis Foden.

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 names for the streets in Quarry Park from these books. Both of these streets are still having houses built on them and Dennis Lane was blocked by vehicles belonging to builders and I only managed to walk half of Foden Lane because of the same reason. I will need to do more research to confirm my theory about Dennis Foden.

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 walkway that runs off Prospect Place. Not a lot that I can say about this street as it is another one that is too new to have any character.

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. It is also in metallurgy and the history is that it is an ancient heat treating technique.

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 rock or ore. Spalling can happen through natural methods and the term was mostly used in the mining industry but it now used in other industries. This street runs from Hoyle Way to Cashmere St and it didn’t stand out for me. Many of the houses are occupied but they are too new to have developed any character.

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 a rock face diesel shovel. My gut feeling was that Ruston had to be a person’s name so I went googling. These machines when invented were called crane navvy which is logical. The oldest surviving crane navvy is the Ruston Proctor Steam Navvy No 306 and is being restored at Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum in Cumbia. Just added another place to my travel list. It was originally used at the chalk pit in Arlesey in Bedfordshire. Joseph Ruston was from Ely and I have a friend who will be interested in this man’s family tree.