Cranbourne Street Signage

Bushranger Cluster: Cranbourne East

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Singers Cluster: Cranbourne East

A small group of streets in Cranbourne East remembers Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Bob Marley and Frank Sinatra.

Surveyed: 17 Jan 2017 by Lynne

Joseph Banks Crescent

Naturalist/Botanist aboard James Cook’s Endeavour.

Surveyed20 Jun 2012 by Rex

Cyril Beechey Lane

Cyril Lewis Beechey was born in 1911. He loved animals and worked for Ashton’s Circus for a time. Cyril moved to Cranbourne in the mid-1960s and started training racehorses. He won two Caulfield Cups with Gay Icarus in 1971 and Analight in 1975, and the Cranbourne Cup with Latin Rule in 1987. Cyril died in 1989 at the age of seventy-eight and is buried at Cranbourne Cemetery.

Surveyed: 16 October 2018 by Lynne

Laurie Cleary Lane

Laurie Cleary was born in 1916 at Sale, he came to Melbourne when he left school. He lived in Footscray and was a tally clerk on the wharves. He often watched the horses at Flemington. He moved to Cranbourne in the 1970s. Laurie won the Oakleigh Plate in 1983 with Sans Rival in circumstances said to rival any movie script in which the battler wins against all odds. Laurie was said to have been a popular local identity, kind-hearted and loyal. He died on Christmas Day 2009, aged ninety-three.

Surveyed: 16 October 2018 by Lynne

James Cook Drive

1st Lieutenant in command of the Endeavour.

Surveyed20 Jun 2012 by Rex

Lady Penryhn Court

Named after Lady Ann Susannah Penrhyn, wife of Richard Pennant, (Baron Penrhyn) a Liverpool merchant

Surveyed20 Jun 2012 by Rex

Isaac Smith Crescent

Able bodied seaman aboard James Cook’s Endeavour.

Surveyed: 20 Jun 2012 by Rex

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