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Old 31-07-2009, 22:08   #1
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Stanley Street Ossy before WW1
I'm told that this street was renamed during WW1?

Does anybody know when and what was it called originally?

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Old 31-07-2009, 23:34   #2
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Re: Stanley Street Ossy before WW1
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I'm told that this street was renamed during WW1?

Does anybody know when and what was it called originally?

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Old 01-08-2009, 05:12   #3
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Re: Stanley Street Ossy before WW1
My father was born in a house on that street in 1909.
I do not recall ever seeing his birth certicate.
My cousin Michael has researched our family tree and might know.
If no one comes up with the answer, I will try to get in touch with him.
My instinct tells me that it may have been named after german/prussian nobility, since the next street up the lane is Duke St.
I hesitate to say this but (prussian prince) Bismark comes to mind, but I have no justifiable reason for thinking that was the name - maybe it is a long forgotten childhood memory - my grandparents were still living there in the 1940s/50s
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Old 01-08-2009, 06:39   #4
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Re: Stanley Street Ossy before WW1
it was bismark st.
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Cheeky cashy, very cheeky, it only feels like I was born pre first world war
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it was bismark st.
That was sunk without a trace nortype
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Re: Stanley Street Ossy before WW1
I am a little bit gobsmacked that I got the right answer.
My intuition is increasing in accuracy at a pace lately.
I have reading a lot about Zen, and appear to be making strides overcoming ego.
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Re: Stanley Street Ossy before WW1
wheres Stanley st ossy???
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wheres Stanley st ossy???
Off New Lane.

As you're going up it's on the left.
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Re: Stanley Street Ossy before WW1
Ah yes I rem now.
either the 2nd or 3rd turning I think.

but know it now
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Re: Stanley Street Ossy before WW1
Perhaps the residents of Bismarck Strasse were inspired to change the name following the royal family doing the same thing.

After they'd changed their actual family name from Saxe-Coburg Goethe, to one they made up, Windsor.
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Re: Stanley Street Ossy before WW1
Read somewhere it was renamed due to its connections with the Germans ... understandable.
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Read somewhere it was renamed due to its connections with the Germans ... understandable.

...and yet people in Ossy still go up the Kaiser's back passage.

Odd that.

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Many thanks everybody, good of you..

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