Of the personalities remembered in this area,Horsington was an M.P.,Bagot was a businessman and Brady, Phillips, Hall, Gray, Haskard, Mann and Driscoll were aldermen.
To the west, near the rail outlet to Adelaide, Albert Morris, father of the Regeneration Scheme is remembered in Morris Street.
Finn Street recalls Larry Finn, proprietor of the old - time Royal Hotel.
Doe was a member of parliament. Vital minerals recognised in this area are Galena and Zinc.
RAILWAYTOWN - Parallel streets in Railwaytown were named from the ill-fated exployers Burke and Wills.
Other streets from Rakow to Gaffney are named mainly after aldermen.
In part of Railwaytown there has occurred a renaming of some streets to overcome confusion.
Up till just after the first World War, Mica, Wolfram, Cobalt and Beryl Streets carried over into Railwaytown as far as Gypsum Street.
However, the house numbers were duplicated on each side of the railway line,and postmen had a torrid time finding the correct "26 Wolfram Street".
The railwaytown section of Beryl Street was therefore changed to Wills.
Cobalt became Rowe, Wolfram became Cornish and Mica became Mercury.
Some of the old names died hard, the Methodist Church in Mercury Street was still known as the Mica Street Church.
SOUTH - South of the Line of Lode, streets parallel to the lode were named from early mine managers - Eyre, Piper, Hebbard, Patton, Wilson, Morish, Boughtman and Jamieson.
Those running at right angles took the names of old mining companies-Victoria,
Bonanza, Comstock, South and Central.
Outside this area, South Broken Hill street names revert to those of important businessmen such as Whittaker, King and Lawton.
Knox Street, near the regeneration Area, derived its name from William Knox, first Secretary of B. H. P. L. T. D. After World War Two, the Zinc Corporation employee housing scheme at the South introduced some new subdivisions - and a new fashion in street naming the new winding lanes and short access roads came from the botanical world.
The streets were named from different species of trees that had been successfully grown in Broken Hill to grace the city's streets and gardens-the new names were pleasant to the ears, and were more evocative than the general tenor of local street names.
They included Athol Place, Casuarina Avenue, Jacaranda Place, Northfolk Avenue and Torquata Place.
SHORT STREETS - Scattered through Broken Hill are a number of short sections of roads and Lanes characterised by particular names, for instance, Thomas Lane widens into full street width for two blocks, and is here known as Hill Street.
Union Street is short,full - width extension of Morgan Lane. Sampson Street, overlooking the Police Boy's Club, has the distinction of having only one house.
Railway Parade provides an L - shaped access to a small group of post-war houses near the Railwaytown railway station (now Big W Complex).
A row of cottages running off Hebbard Street was complexed by the Zinc Corporation in the late 'thirties'to provide staff housing.
The houses were bright and attractive, with their roofs painted in contrasting colours; the naming of Rainbow Avenue was almost automatic.
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PHOTOS OF STREETS IN BROKEN HILL