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Street name Salop Street
Suburb Beulah Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Salop is the colloquial name for the county of Shropshire in England.
The street was named when John Amery subdivided the southern part of Section 288 into 105
allotments in 1851. Possibly Amery came from that part of England.
Carlisle Street (now changed to Duke Street) was created at the same time.
(See also Duke Street.)
Year in which street acquired present name 1851
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 251.
Street name Sandford Street
Suburb Kensington Gardens
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after the Sandford family.
Jonathon Sandford, a lawyer of Chancery Lane, London, bought the three sections that made
up the land between Magill Road and Kensington Road, and then William Sandford (his son?)
came to South Australia in 1839 to manage the estate. He established a sizeable wooden
house that probably came with him, near the point where Stonyfell Creek crosses today’s
Glynburn Road, and named it Edgerton. Shortly afterwards the land in the vicinity of
Sandford Street changed hands and in the 1840s 20 acres became an extension to the small
farms and market gardens of Magill.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, pp. 232, 238.
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Street name Schebella Court
Suburb Beaumont
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Sidney W. Schebella.
He was a long time resident of Beaumont and when his property was subdivided this street
was established.
(See also Evelyn Court, Beaumont.)
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Private information from Mr R. G. Schebella (brother of Sidney) of 31 Boundary Road,
Glenelg South.
Street name Schubert Court
Suburb Rosslyn Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Mr Max Schubert, winemaker at Penfold Winery.
Year in which street acquired present name 1950s
Sources of information
Sunday Mail, 12 Feb. 1989, p. 9.
Street name Scott Street
Suburb Dulwich
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Possibly named after Mr Henry Scott, MLC.
Henry Scott was a successful merchant, Director of the Bank of Adelaide and Mayor of
Adelaide (1877-78). In 1905 he became owner of the large house Benacre in Glen Osmond.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Colman, D. (ed), The First Hundred Years, p. 60.
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Street name Scott Street
Suburb Beulah Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Alexander Andrew Scott.
John Ruthven (1836-1923), a Scot who arrived in 1876, built a number of houses in and
around Beulah Park. He had a large family and lived at 44 Glyde Street before later moving
to Perth.
When John Ruthven was abroad Alexander Scott acted as his agent.
Heyne Place which is south of Glyde Street was also formerly called Scott Street but it was
renamed in 2002 as the public gardens had been extended to close off the end of Scott Street.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 255.
Street name Seaforth Avenue
Suburb Hazelwood Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Probably named after Loch Seaforth on the Island of Lewis in the Hebrides of Scotland. The
road is on part of the original Linden estate and the name may either have some connection
with the first owner Sir Alexander Hay who came from Dunfermline in Scotland, or with
Peter Wood who became second owner in 1900 and whose parents came from Lerwick in the
Shetland Isles in Scotland.
The estate was first subdivided in 1922, the year after the death of Peter Wood in 1921.
Other streets in the vicinity with names associated with Scotland are Doonoon Avenue,
Lerwick Avenue, Rothesay Avenue, Seaforth Avenue and Strathspey Avenue.
(For further information see Hay Road, Linden Park and Wood Grove, Hazelwood Park)
Year in which street acquired present name 1922
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, pp. 175-184.
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Street name Seaton Avenue
Suburb Hazelwood Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after the house Seaton in Kensington Gardens.
Seaton was a large two-storey house built in 1875 by Gilbert Wood (1828-1886) and extended
in 1883. It now faces Toowong Avenue which was probably the entrance drive. Gilbert’s
eldest son Peter Wood (1855-1921) became owner of the Linden estate which extended from
Cooper Place down to Greenhill Road.
Linden was established by Sir Alexander Hay in 1861 on Section 297 through which Seaton
Avenue passes. From 1900 it was then the property of Peter Wood and then his son Peter
until the house was finally demolished in 1967 and the remainder of the estate subdivided.
(For further details of the house see Dryden Avenue, Hazelwood Park.)
(See also Hay Road, Linden Park, and Wood Grove, Hazelwood Park.)
Year in which street acquired present name 1922
Sources of information
Private information from Mr Peter Wood.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, pp. 183, 250.
Street name Seaview Road
Suburb Mount Osmond
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Presumably because of the view to the sea.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
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Street name Sherwood Terrace
Suburb Beaumont
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Possibly named after Sherwood in Nottingham, England.
The road is on the southern boundary of the original Sunnyside estate and the gardener’s lodge
was at the corner of Sunnyside Road.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Sherwood Terrace
Suburb Glen Osmond
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Sherwood Terrace, Beaumont.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
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Street name Shipsters Road
Suburb Kensington
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
District Road.
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after George Shipster.
Although living in England, George Shipster, solicitor, bought Section 300 as an investment
in 1838. The section is bounded on west and east by Shipster’s Road and Glynburn Road,
and extends between Kensington Road and The Parade. George Shipster came to South
Australia in 1843 but died fifteen months later on the day that he was to marry Commissioner
Fisher’s daughter. The estate passed to a son by an earlier marriage and for many years was
known as Shipster’s Paddock, being was used as a general playground area until subdivided
into fifty-two allotments in 1865.
Ten of the blocks were later bought by beneficiaries and public subscription to become
Kensington Park Oval.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 245.
Street name Shipsters Road
Suburb Kensington Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
District Road.
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Shipsters Road, Kensington.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
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Street name Shiraz Place
Suburb Auldana
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after the grape variety Shiraz.
This very common red wine grape, which is also called Hermitage is often blended with other
wine grapes. The well-known Penfold’s Grange Hermitage is a blend of Shiraz (Hermitage)
with other grapes.
Other streets in Auldana with names associated with grape varieties are Gamay Court,
Hermitage Road, Traminer Way and Verdelho Court. Auldana was previously part of the
vineyards of the Home Park estate.
(For further details of Home Park see Patrick Auld Drive, Auldana.)
Year in which street acquired present name 1980
Sources of information
Evans, L., Pocket Guide to Australian Wines, p. 466.
Street name Short Crescent
Suburb Beaumont
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Bishop Augustus Short (1802-1883).
Bishop Short was the first Bishop of Adelaide. Initially he lived in a house in Bishops Place,
Kensington, then he moved to Beaumont to a cottage which he extended and called
Claremont. On completion of the Bishops Palace in North Adelaide in 1846, Short moved out
of Claremont and the house became the property of Sir Samuel Davenport. Further
extensions were made and it became known as Beaumont House, now owned by the National
Trust.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 151.
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Street name Sidney Place
Suburb Hazelwood Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Algernon Sidney Clark (1826-1909).
Sidney Clark was a son of Francis Clark and brother of John Howard Clark of Hazelwood
Cottage.
Sidney was the owner/manager of the engineering firm Francis Clark & Son who in 1879
manufactured the historic town pump on display in Burra.
Other streets in the vicinity with names associated with the Clark family and the Hazelwood
estate are Davenport Terrace, Hazelwood Avenue, Hawthorn Crescent, Hillstow Place,
Howard Terrace and Olive Grove.
(See also those other street names.)
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Private information from John Clark.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 82.
Clark – Martin family history, The Hatbox Letters, pp. 196 to 208.
They Built South Australia, p. 40.
Street name Simpson Road
Suburb Burnside
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Simpson Newland.
Simpson Newland was the wealthy owner of the nearby house and estate Undelcarra 1876-
1911. In about 1877 he bought twenty acres of the Ilfracombe estate from Joseph Crompton,
subsequently selling nine to the builder of the house Chiverton (now St Peter’s Collegiate
Girl’s School). Together with the builder J. H. Luxmore, Simpson Newland then divided his
remaining land into allotments with this road down the middle. Blocks were sold but full
development did not start until many years later.
(For further details of Undelcarra see Debney Drive and Undelcarra Road in Burnside and
Torrens Avenue in Erindale.)
(For further details of Simpson Newland, see Newland Road, Burnside.)
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 45.
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Street name Sitters Memorial Drive
Suburb Burnside
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Princes Avenue.
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Hartley Sitters.
Hartley Sitters was a bullock driver from Norton Summit who used to detour from the steep
section of Greenhill Road along a track which is now Sitters Memorial Drive.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Burnside Historical Society Newsletter, vol. 5 no. 2 June 1985 p. 26.
Street name Slape Crescent
Suburb Burnside
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after the Slape family.
Robert Slape after whom the road was probably named was one of a large family of early and
long-term Burnside residents in the Slape Gully area. The first Slapes in the area were two
brothers who owned Section 1056 in this Second Creek gully.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, pp. 51, 54.
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Street name Slapes Gully Road
Suburb Burnside
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after the gully of Second Creek where the Slape brothers worked.
The brothers owned Section 1056 until 1949 and Thomas Slape, dairyman, lived at the back
of Section 904.
See also Slape Crescent, Burnside.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 51.
Street name Snow Street
Suburb Glen Osmond
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Possibly named after Thomas Snow, MA, who was cousin of Governor Jervois and became
his Aide-de-Camp. Jervois was Governor of South Australia 1877-1883. Snowtown in the
mid north was also named after Thomas Snow.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Cockburn, Rodney, What’s in a Name, p. 201.
Street name Sophia Court
Suburb Magill
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
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Street name South Terrace
Suburb Kensington Gardens
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Presumably so named because it runs along the southern boundary of Kensington Gardens
Reserve, with East and West Terrace bordering two other sides.
What was previously North Terrace along the northern boundary has now been renamed The
Parade for consistency along that length of road.
Year in which street acquired present name About 1912
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, pp. 237, 215 (map).
Street name Spencer Street
Suburb Kensington Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
There were several early migrant families named Spencer. Spencer Gulf was named by
Matthew Flinders after the Earl of Spencer who presided over the Board of Admiralty when
the voyage of exploration was planned.
However as three streets in the vicinity - Corinda Avenue, Toowong Avenue and Yeronga
Avenue - have names associated with Aboriginal words it is possible that this street is named
after Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer (1860-1929) a professor at Melbourne University and noted
authority on Aborigines.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Chambers Encyclopaedia vol. 13 p. 84.
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Street name Sprod Avenue
Suburb Toorak Gardens
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after the Sprod family.
Dr Sprod who was also the first Medical Officer for Kensington and Norwood subdivided the
area between Barker Grove and Sprod Avenue in 1925.
Originally the 134-acre Section 274 which is now Toorak Gardens belonged to the South
Australian Company which leased and then sold it to Andrew and Margaret Fergusson from
Monreith in Scotland. They called it Monreith Farm growing wheat and barley, and building
a flour mill near where Sprod Avenue now lies.
(See also Cudmore Avenue, Barker Grove and Fergusson Square, Toorak Gardens.)
Year in which street acquired present name 1925
Sources of information
Adelaide Almanac 1885.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, pp. 299-300.
Street name St Albans Drive
Suburb Burnside
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Possibly named after St Albans, an ancient Cathedral town just north of London, England,
which was named after the third century English martyr St Alban.
Year in which street acquired present name 1975
Sources of information
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Street name St Albyns Avenue
Suburb Toorak Gardens
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name St Andrews Avenue
Suburb Mount Osmond
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Possibly named after the Scottish golf course St Andrews as it is near the Mount Osmond golf
course.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
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Street name Stanley Street
Suburb Erindale
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Osbourne Street.
Origin of earlier name
Named after an early settler of Erindale, Osborne or Osbourne.
Origin of present name
Named after Stanley Cooper.
Stanley Cooper was one of four sons of Thomas Cooper (1826-1897) the founder of Coopers
Brewery. The brewery was started in a backyard in Norwood and moved to three blocks in
Upper Kensington (now Leabrook) in 1881. Stanley Cooper requested Burnside Council to
construct this street in 1910 as a second entrance to the brewery which has been run by
successive members of the family to this day.
Year in which street acquired present name 1910
Sources of information
Burnside Historical Society Meeting tape recording, no. 64, 12 May 1986.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, pp. 61, 65-66.
Street name Stanley Street
Suburb Leabrook
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Stanley Street, Erindale.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
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Street name Statenborough Street
Suburb Leabrook
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Statenborough House in Kent, England.
This area, which was once a wheat and dairy farm, was subdivided by Joseph Moulden (1812-
1891) in 1877. His father was a wool merchant of Southwark, London, with a country seat at
Statenborough House near Eastry in Kent, England. Joseph Moulden also built the house
Statenborough which still stands in Norwood, though much altered, as the Ashley Court units
on the corner of Eastry Street and The Parade.
(See also Rochester Street.)
Year in which street acquired present name 1877
Sources of information
Burnside Library, Local History Collection, Moulden family notes.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 64.
Street name Stirling Street
Suburb Tusmore
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Sir John Lancelot Stirling MLC (1849-1932).
From 1895 to at least 1914 he was a member of the Colonial Board of Advice of the South
Australian Company. The company owned Section 291 which was the land bounded by
Portrush Road and Greenhill Road, and approximately by Barr Smith Street and Tusmore
Avenue.
Other streets in the vicinity with names of the members of that Board when this land was
subdivided in 1911 are Bakewell Street, Barr Smith Street, Fisher Street and Kennaway Street.
(See also the streets mentioned above.)
Year in which street acquired present name 1911
Sources of information
Mortlock Library (SA), South Australian Company Annual Report 1911.
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Street name Stonyfell Road
Suburb Stonyfell
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Halletts Road.
Origin of earlier name
See Hallett Road.
Origin of present name
Named as the road leading from Halletts Road to Stonyfell House, the home of the Crompton
family.
(See also Crompton Drive, Wattle Park).
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 54.
Street name Stonyfell Road
Suburb Wattle Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Stonyfell Road, Stonyfell.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
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Street name Strathspey Street
Suburb Burnside
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Probably named after the town in the Grampian Mountains in Scotland. The road is on part of
the original Linden estate and the name may either have some connection with the first owner
Sir Alexander Hay who came from Dunfermline in Scotland, or with Peter Wood who became
second owner in 1900 and whose parents came from Lerwick in the Shetland Isles in
Scotland.
The estate was first subdivided in 1922, the year after the death of Peter Wood in 1921.
Other streets in the vicinity with names associated with Scotland are Doonoon Avenue,
Lerwick Avenue, Rothesay Avenue, and Seaforth Avenue.
(For further information see Hay Road, Linden Park and Wood Grove, Hazelwood Park)
Year in which street acquired present name 1922
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, pp. 175-184.
Street name Stuart Street
Suburb Burnside
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Possibly named after John McDouall Stuart who was the first explorer to cross Australia from
south to north and successfully return in 1861-1862.
There may be some connection with the house Wandeen which stood until 1997 on the north
corner of the junction of the nearby Allen Street and Lockwood Road, because Wandeen was
the home of Frederick Waterhouse who was a surveyor and botanist on that expedition.
Probably the back paddock of Wandeen extended down to the location of Stuart Street until it
was sold by Frederick Waterhouse in 1882.
(See also Allen Street, Burnside and King Lane, Beulah Park.)
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, pp. 21 and 252.
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Street name Stuart Road
Suburb Dulwich
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Possibly named after the Scottish Royal House of Stuart. There is also a Tudor Street in
Dulwich which may be named after the English Royal House of Tudor.
Another possibility is that it is named after John McDouall Stuart who was the first
explorer to cross Australia from south to north and successfully return in 1861-1862.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Lane, Peter, information in possession of Burnside Library Local History Collection.
Street name Sturdee Street
Suburb Linden Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Admiral F. C. D. Sturdee (1859-1925) an Admiral during the First World War.
He acquired fame from the battles of the Falkland Islands (1914) and Jutland (1916) and was
commemorated by the South Australian Company which owned the land at the time of the
subdivision.
Other streets in the vicinity with names associated with Admirals of the First World War
(1914-1918) are Beatty Street, Craddock Street, Hood Street, Jellicoe Street, and Keyes Street.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Burnside Library, Local History Collection.
Private information from Mrs Irma Steele.
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Street name Sturt Place
Suburb Beaumont
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Young Place.
Origin of earlier name
Probably named after General Sir Henry Young.
Origin of present name
Named after Captain Charles Sturt (1795-1869).
Sturt was born in India and became a famous Australia explorer, discovering the Darling
River and many other inland areas but died before he could be knighted.
He was a personal friend of Sir Samuel Davenport of Beaumont House (on the corner of
Glynburn Road and Dashwood Road) who owned the land in this vicinity before it was
subdivided.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Burnside Library, Local History Collection.
Cockburn, Rodney, What’s in a Name, p. 209.
Joy, W., The Explorers.
Street name Sturt Avenue
Suburb Toorak Gardens
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Possibly named after the Sturt Hotel and Livery Stables owned by the Fergusson family of
Monreith Farm which was in this vicinity.
However as Daniel Cudmore whose family subdivided this part of the estate in 1919 was also
an explorer, it could have been named directly after Captain Charles Sturt the famous
explorer, as the hotel and stables undoubtedly were.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 279.
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Street name Stymie Place
Suburb Mount Osmond
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Possibly based on the golfing term being near the golf links.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Sunnyside Road
Suburb Beaumont
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Brynmore Terrace.
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after the estate Sunnyside.
The original 80 acre Section 266 which was south of Dashwood Road and east of Sunnyside
Road was divided diagonally along the line of the gully by the first owner Charles Burton
Newenham who was the sheriff of the colony. He let this 40 acre estate to a number of
tenants until it was sold in 1848.
In 1850 it was sold again to (Sir) William Milne who made significant improvements to the
large bluestone house and added a second storey. William Milne who became a prominent
pastoralist, politician and member of Parliament also built Eurilla at Mount Lofty as a
summer house. (Eurilla was sold to Sir Lavington Bonython in 1917 and burnt out in the Ash
Wednesday fire in 1983. It was sold by Kym Bonython in 1987 and was again up for sale in
1998.)
Sunnyside was owned by Richard Fowler for a few years at the end of the 19th century until
1901 when it passed to Thomas Pope solicitor who lived there for eighteen years. Main
subdivision of the estate started in 1922 and one of the later owners of the house was the stone
mason A.S. Tillet who removed the second storey.
The house which is now off Lascelles Avenue originally had beautiful gardens with a front
drive down to Sunnyside Road where the coachman and gardeners cottages can still be seen
by the large entrance gateway. Final subdivision has now left only about an acre of garden.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Advertiser, ? 1998.
Cockburn, Rodney, What’s in a Name, p. 209.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, pp. 168-174.
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Street name Sunnyside Road
Suburb Glen Osmond
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Sunnyside Road, Beaumont
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Sunnyside Road
Suburb St Georges
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Sunnyside Road, Beaumont
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Swaine Avenue
Suburb Rose Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Robert Swaine, a director of the South Australia Company.
The South Australia Company owned Section 262 and when it was subdivided the suburb was
named after the Chairman Sir John Rose. Other streets in the vicinity with names associated
with the South Australian Company are:
Partners Gurney, Close, Webb, Swaine
Auditors Watson, Grant
Solicitor Hewitt.
Year in which street acquired present name 1876
Sources of information
Mortlock Library (SA), South Australian Company Annual Reports.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 284.
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Street name Swaine Avenue
Suburb Toorak Gardens
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Swaine Avenue, Rose Park.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Swift Avenue
Suburb Dulwich
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Kate Marion Lilian Swift.
Kate Swift owned this land when it was subdivided.
Year in which street acquired present name 1897
Sources of information
Burnside Library, Local History Collection.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 276.
Street name Swiss Place
Suburb Skye
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
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Street name Sydney Street
Suburb Glenside
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Possibly named after Charles Sydney Leader who owned land in Toorak Gardens and after
whom Leader Avenue is named.
Year in which street acquired present name c. 1911
Sources of information
Burnside Library, Local History Collection.
South Australian Directory, 1911.
Street name Sydney Street
Suburb Glenunga
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Sydney Street, Glenside.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Sylvaner Avenue
Suburb Auldana
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after a type of Riesling grape.
This land was originally vineyards belonging to the Auldana Winery until they were
subdivided. Other streets in the vicinity with names associated with wines are Hermitage
Road, Traminer Way and Verdelho Court.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Evans, L., Pocket Guide to Australian Wines, p. 20.
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