the area formerly known as tottenham: 3 - sredna st

I'm trying to find details on Anders M. Hansen, the builder - timberyard owner - Mayor of Footscray who built a lot of homes in Footscray. There's not a lot on him. I know he died in the 50s. I am not even going to bore us both with the meagre information I do know. Anyway, he obviously subdivided and built Sredna St. For some weird reason I thought the area was known as Tottenham until recently but I was apparently wrong in this assumption and Tottenham - the name of the nearby railway station - is only applicable to the industrial area that starts just west of Sredna st and according to Wikipedia has a population of 0. 

This is the factory at the end of Sredna St. 

 Here are a few of the houses which are presumably Hansen originals.

In a moment of fancy I thought maybe the emblem below meant 'AH' for Anders Hansen but since it's only on one of the houses, it probably doesn't mean that. 

Surely that's enough West Footscray, the area not actually formerly known as Tottenham except by me, for today. 

the area formerly known as tottenham: 2 - stony creek

So for a creek that has apparently a history of extreme flooding...  

Stony Creek has a lot of properties very close to its edge, far closer than most urban creeks I am familiar with. I would have liked to traverse more of SC (so I probably should've - oh well, some other day). 

The part of the creek west of Paramount Rd which has no path or anything just thick undergrowth and a lot of blackberries.  

the area formerly known as tottenham - 1: hex st

I wish I knew where to find this now (there is an odd disjunct between when the Age runs out in newspapers.com - 2000 - and when the Age starts being searchable on its own website - I guess around 2006-7 but it's a terrible search function) but I know that once there was an article in the Age about Hex St, Tottenham (as it was then known) which apparently contained the cheapest houses in Melbourne. I believe I drove there so it must have been around 2001-3 or 4 (because I didn't get my license till around then). I just wanted to see how terrible a really cheap street could be, and I am sure I was not the only one. I see in the Age listings for 2000 that homes in Hex St sold for around $170 000.  

Anyway it looked fine to me. I think the weirdest thing about it overall was that it was called Hex St. I mean, is that the word for anything other than a curse? There are a few other Hex Streets in the world - there's a couple in the US and one in South Africa - I still say it's a super weird name for a street. 

But, Hex St in 2024 is an extremely nice ordinary suburban street. 

This house below surprised me, it suggests Hex St is a lot older than I thought. I assumed 1920s at earliest but unless this house predates the street, you'd have to guess pre-WWI. 

I don't know whether the individual below is a hex maker or hex recipient

'Can't wait for part 2 of this series'