Bushranger Cluster: Cranbourne East
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.
Surveyed: 20 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.
Surveyed: 20 Jun 2012 by Rex
Lady Penryhn Court
Named after Lady Ann Susannah Penrhyn, wife of Richard Pennant, (Baron Penrhyn) a Liverpool merchant
Surveyed: 20 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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