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Re: (NSW) Re East Hills line names
> Deeg <galtfd@att.net> wrote in message
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> I've wondered for decades but never had anybody to ask: How did
East
> > Hills get its name? It isn't all that terribly hilly and was
long the
> > western terminus of a railway line. About the only think I
can see
> > that it is east of is a bend in the Georges River.
>
>
> > Answer this and I can go to my grave satisfied.
>
>
> > Don Galt
> I cannot answer your question but there were
some name changes applied to
> the East Hills line stations from what was
originally proposed. I have an
> old map of Sydney by Craigie's which
dates from probably the late 1920's
> (before the Cronulla line was built
and shows the East Hills line as a
> dotted line (against continuous line
for the lines already opened).
> This shows the following station
names:
> Nioka (now Panania)
> Saltpan (opened as Hearn Bay and
changed to Riverwood in the 1960's??)
> Podmore (Narwee)
> Dumbleton
(Beverly Hills)
> Bexley (Bexley North)
> Earlwood (Bardwell
Park)
> Hearn Bay (or was it Herne Bay?) was changed because of the so
called stigma
> from the migrant hostel. Why the others changed, I don't
know. Maybe someone
> can throw some light on it.
> Were map makers
Craigie have educated guesses or what! I have seen a copy of
> NSWGR's
station names book (I don't have access to it now and some of the
> above
names may have applied from the opening of the line.
> All I can say is
that Beverly Hills sounds much more glamorous than
> Dumbleton!
>
Roger Lloyd
>
>
>
>
> Re East Hills
Naming,
From a book called "A Pictorial History of
Canterbury Bankstown"
East Hills:-
First used in the Sydney Gazette in 1810
when a farm of that name was
occupied by Roebert Gardiner a tenant
of George Johnston
Chullora:-
Said to be an Aboriginal word
meaning 'flower' but this appears a misinterpretation of the English
words 'flower' and 'flour' as it is recorded it derived from the flour obtained
from grinding grass seeds between two stones.
Sefton Park:-
James Wood named his 1839 land grant Sefton
Park, after Sefton, Lancashire.
Georges River:-
Assumed to be named after King
George 111.
My wife obtained the book from Angus &
Robertson at Roselands.
Cheers
Kim & Chris Andronicus