There is a short street “over the creek” which is known as Sparks Drive.

I have always referred to it as Sparks Court, my title for it being incorrect.

It runs off Stanley Avenue near the easterly end of that street.

Stanley Avenue was once known as Gaol (Goal) Street and acquired that name due to its location which was enroute to the Kent County Jail.

Sparks Drive is not an old street and was, at one time, the estate property of Archdeacon Sandys.

Francis William Sandys was born at County Cork, Ireland in 1815.

His wife, Elizabeth Moeran Sandys was also born at County Cork, in 1821.

Sandys later entered the ministry and became a circuit rider in this region of Southern Ontario, I believe, in 1845.

He eventually settled at Chatham and was responsible for the mid 1860s construction........

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