StreetDuralSuburbHornsbyDetailsThe coming of the railway line greatly influenced the patterns of settlement in Hornsby. It was at a time where workers usually lived within walking distance to their work place. With this in mind, land speculators surveyed and divided the land around the station accordingly. Towards the end of the 1880s and in the early 1890s, blocks of land were being sold on either side of the railway line close to Hornsby.
Dural Street runs along the southern rim of Old Mans Valley between Peats Ferry Road and Rosemead Road. Some of the blocks on the northern side of the road which back onto the valley have rather steep back yards while those on the southern side have rear access from Dural Lane. These lanes allowed the night-soil cart or sanitary man access to the detached toilets, usually situated behind each house some distance from the back door. This was common in most land subdivisions of that time.
The 1903 Sands Directory, the first to list the residents of Hornsby street by street, shows that there were only seven houses in Dural Street at that time. Early residents of Dural Street were John Sutherland, Charles Carpenter, Sam Cheetham and W. J. Webb. SourceFederation Hornsby: The development of the Mount Errington AreaMap[1]
