The earliest streets named on the Street Plan of Sandridge 1849 were those clustered around the foundation place of the early settlement - Bay, Dow, Rouse, Stokes, Graham. They were named from Sydney.
Garryowen made this unflattering assessment about some of the later names:
‘the nomenclature (street names) was distributed amongst a batch of local mediocrities.' He adds
‘Certainly they have amongst…