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Testun Gwreiddiol (Anodiad: EPW017487 / 1446737)
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Lynwood Drive but, in 1927 called Stoneleigh Drive. When Cronks housing developers expanded the built up area in 1933 (to the right of Lynwood Drive in this picture) the residents of Stoneleigh Drive did not want the new housing to have the same road name. After a consultation they agreed that Stoneleigh Drive would be called Lynwood Drive (as far as the Cattle Arch) where Park Road (now Sandringham Road diverged to the left. The road that continued in a straight line from Lynwood Drive and ran parallel to the railway was originally to be called Meadow Road but was quickly changed to Stoneleigh Avenue. Sandringham Road and Stoneleigh Avenue comprised cheaper "blocks of four" houses which were on sale for about £500 in 1933. I'm afraid that local sensitivities seem to have extended through the 1930's because the more expensive houses which were built in the late 1930's from Stoneleigh Avenue to Stoneleigh Broadway were in a thoroughfare named Rosedale Road.
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