Thorpe Street, Newport
I lived in Thorpe Street, Newport for 20 plus years and still walk down it often. I went to Newport West Primary School, when it as called Newport West, and to Paisley High School, when it was called Paisley High, before they demolished pretty much both of them. When I lived in Thorpe Street the road at the southern end of Blenheim Road, Newport was unsealed – it was gravel – as indeed was all of the southern end of Maddox Road. There was no defined nature strip in Rosshire Road either back then, that was gravel too. Anyway, that gives an idea of the locale of Thorpe Street. The roads arounds are all now sealed (except for Ross Road), and the Australian Islamic Centre is now just around the corner, and Newport West Primary is Newport Gardens, and Paisley High is now a campus of Bayside.
