Ashley Street

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StreetAshley StreetSuburbHornsbyDetailsAshley Street is one of the oldest streets in Hornsby with it being surveyed for subdivision in December 1886.
The street has changed quite a lot over the years, the growth of Hornsby RSL probably being the largest single influence on the street. In 1903, Thomas Foster senior still lived in Ashley Street surrounded by his orchard which he farmed with his son who was also named Thomas. This orchard was the illegal playground of the youth of Federation Hornsby and Foster's orchard was later to feature in the Ginger Meggs comics. Foster's orchard, for so long the mecca for many of the young boys in the area, was subdivided in 1906 and soon neighbours George Osborne, a fencer and Samuel Mays, a Constable had moved in.
On the north side of Ashley Street in 1903 there were only three residents. The first was the architect Joseph Alexander Kethel who lived in a brick house, 'Kingil', which was just behind High Street on land purchased from Martin Henry Blake who had originally bought the land in January 1892.
The 1903 Sands Directory shows that there were only five houses in the vicinity of Ashley Street.Source'Federation Hornsby'. Hornsby Shire Historical Society, (1997)Map^[1]RelatedBert Spencer and sonsNew Station Estate - HornsbyHornsby Junction Estate 1892Ginger Meggs and Foster's Orchard

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Ginger Meggs and Foster's Orchard

Bert Spencer and sons

Ashley Street, Hornsby

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Hornsby Junction Estate 1892

New Station Estate - Hornsby

Ashley Street, Hornsby, 2009.

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