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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''King Street''' is a minor street running north-south between [[Gordon Street]] and [[[Birdwood Street]] in the suburb of [[Balwyn]].<br />
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==Etymology==<br />
Named for the [[wikipedia:John King (explorer)|John King]], an Irish soldier who was the sole survivor of the disastrous [[Burke and Wills expedition]] in 1860-61.<ref name="McWilliamsNames">McWilliam, G. ''Balwyn Background Streets''. McWilliam Enterprises: 2010.</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
King Street was part of the [[Belmore Park Estate]] which was made up of streets named for various explorers of the period. These were [[Wills Street]], [[Grey Street]] and [[Eyre Street]], gazetted in April 1890. Properties were subdivided into 123 quarter-acre allotments with 20 metre frontages.<ref name="McWilliamsNames" /><ref name="BalwynNorthBalwynHeritageStudy">City of Boroondara. ''Balwyn and Balwyn North Heritage Study''. July 2013. https://boroondara.vic.gov.au/-/media/Files/Your%20Council/Building%20and%20planning/Heritage/balwyn%20and%20balwyn%20north%20heritage%20study/Balwyn-REPORT-V5-pdf, accessed: 2 February 2017</ref><br />
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==Notable buildings==<br />
* '''17-19 King Street''' - heritage detached weatherboard houses built in c.1893 for Thomas and Fred Hillier. Home briefly owned by John Maling, son of the first Mayor of the [[City of Camberwell]], [[John Butler Maling]].<ref name="BalwynNorthBalwynHeritageStudy" /><br />
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==References==<br />
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{{Streets of Balwyn}}</div>Philip