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A bit of trivia.
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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 1692186" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>In another thread just recently there was mention of a place in the US called Effingham. This is also the name of the street I grew up in in Brisbane. I googled it and yes it is a county in Illinois, the next street down is called Ellington St which is also a county in Connecticut in the US. I remembered that our streets were part of a US army camp during the early stages of the war. I googled it and it was an extensive psychiatric hospital during the war with recreation huts and picture theatre etc. I suspect our streets were constructed by US engineers and hence named by US personel and the names stuck when it was turned into residential blocks. I can remember some of the old buildings still there a couple of streets above us that I used to walk past when going to school in my early years, they were like big barracks buildings sheeted in asbestos, god we had asbestos every where around us when we were growing up.</p><p></p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 1692186, member: 16453"] In another thread just recently there was mention of a place in the US called Effingham. This is also the name of the street I grew up in in Brisbane. I googled it and yes it is a county in Illinois, the next street down is called Ellington St which is also a county in Connecticut in the US. I remembered that our streets were part of a US army camp during the early stages of the war. I googled it and it was an extensive psychiatric hospital during the war with recreation huts and picture theatre etc. I suspect our streets were constructed by US engineers and hence named by US personel and the names stuck when it was turned into residential blocks. I can remember some of the old buildings still there a couple of streets above us that I used to walk past when going to school in my early years, they were like big barracks buildings sheeted in asbestos, god we had asbestos every where around us when we were growing up. Ken [/QUOTE]
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