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From: Graham Jaunay< >
Subject: Re: Lost Street SA
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 08:20:06 +0930
References: <4tpbmh$f4r@opera.iinet.net.au>

In article <4tpbmh$>, wrote:

> Can anyone help me? I want to know where Hawdon Street was in
> Adelaide, circa 1880s. It's not on current maps and hasn't been since
> at least 1960. I suspect it to be in the Clarendon Street/Light Square
> area but would like to me more precise. I am particularly interested
> in an infamous set of houses known as Boddingtons Row, situated on
> town acre number 69.

When Col. William Light laid out Adelaide in early 1837 he and a committee
named the main streets only. A multitude of smaller connecting streets and
lanes were established to allow access to properties especially as
original town acres were subdivided. These streets were named in an ad hoc
fashion often by people on whose property they ran.

Town acre 69 is located on the southern side of Hidley Street and is the
second block west of Morphett Street. The town acres on the southern side
of Hindley Street from West Terrace to Morphett Street embrace nos 63-70
inclusive. For details on the original purchasers of these acres you may
care to call up my web site as below...

When one looks at a modern map it would seem to my calculations that
Clarendon Street passes through town acre 68. [Take a modern map of
Hindley Street and divide it into eigths to get the approximate locations
of the town acres. - Although West Tce is much widened into eight lanes I
believe the widening encroached on the parklands and not the city blocks]

Using these calculations it would seem that Hawdon Street has been built
over. This can be confirmed by an approach to the Adelaide City Archives
the address of which is on my web pages...

Graham

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