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Chevy Place in Hoon Hay – Named on 29 March 1956. First appears in street directories in 1964. A tiny amount of information from the library website. Very little information on Papers Past and it was mostly ads. It was possibly named after the chevy car but the word also means harass, nag or torment. …

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Barossa Lane in Hoon Hay – nothing on library website yet the houses here were built in 1990s. Possibly named after the Barossa Valley in South Australia. Wikipedia states that that it is a German word spelt incorrectly and was named after the Battle of Barrosa yet the battle was in Spain. It is a …

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Victors Road in Hoon Hay – First appears in street directories in 1957. A tiny amount of information from the library website. I couldn’t find out the reason for the name but highly likely that it was named after a person with the name Victor. I checked Ancestry website but didn’t find anything. Not a …

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Samuel St in Hoon Hay – First appears in street directories in 1953. A tiny amount of information from the library website. I couldn’t find out how the street got it’s name and it was possibly a person’s name. I checked Ancestry website and cemetery database with no luck. Not much information on Papers Past …

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Newland St in Hoon Hay – First appears in street directories in 1957. A tiny amount of information from the library website and I couldn’t find out how it got it’s name. It was possibly named after a place in the UK but equally it looked like a surname. I checked Ancestry website and couldn’t …

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Gainsborough St in Hoon Hay – One of the first streets to be developed in the Hoon Hay area. Families lived in pioneering conditions in small baches while building their own houses in their spare time. First appears in street directories in 1955. Further information “Brave new life in the suburbs”, The Press, 8 May …

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Marion St in Hoon Hay – nothing on library website and I was surprised as the houses were built between 1950s and 1970s with one built 2014. I couldn’t find out how it got the name Marion and I suspect it was named after a person but couldn’t find out who. I searched cemetery records …

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Kevin St in Hoon Hay -Named after Kevin John Blogg. Blogg is the son of Frederick “Fred” Sidney Blogg (1922-2005), the roading contractor who developed the street. First appears in street directories in 1952 as Kelvin Street and appears as Kevin Street in 1953. An error had been made in the paperwork and this was …

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Copenhagen Place in Hoon Hay- Named in 1957. A tiny amount of information from the library website. I assume that the street has been named after Copenhagen in Denmark. In 1957 the street name was approved for the new street. In 1960s there were sections for sale. The residents blamed the hill subdivisions for silting …

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Falsgrave St in Waltham – Probably named after Falsgrave in North Yorkshire. According to the minutes of the Sydenham Borough Council the formation and metalling of this street was completed by 1880. First mentioned in The Press in 1880 in a report of a meeting of the Sydenham Borough Council. First appears in street directories …

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