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.

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 of information from the library website. At first I read the library description incorrectly and thought that they meant that the old stone cottage is actually on this street. The stone cottage is at at Halswell Quarry and I have visited it several times. This street runs off Findlay Ave and there is still houses being built here. A couple are occupied and I quite liked the house which used stone within the design.

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 the Quarry. The street is too new to have any history.

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 in the subdivision Quarry Park relate to quarrying. This tiny street runs off Tempering Drive.