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 Back to page 2 or Back to page 1  Page 3- Lady Franklin  The lights were first started in 1993 when a man called Roscoe Thorby (who has been living on franklin road for about 20 years!) decided to decorate his house with 40,000 christmas lights lights. The year after that, he invited his neighbours to do the the same thing and before long, nearly everyone on the street was doing it and it hd become a traditon! The picture below is Lady franklin, the namesake of Franklin Road. Lady Jane Franklin was born on 4 December 1791, and was the daughter of John Griffin, silk weaver, of London, and Mary, née Guillemard. In 1828 she married John Franklin. Lady Franklin was a traveller. She was the first woman to climb Mount Wellington and to travel over land from Melbourne to Sydney & from Hobart to Macquarie Harbour. She also visited America, Hawaii, Japan, and India, but she is remembered above all for the search she organized from 1850 to 1857 for her husband Sir John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition. She died in England on 18 July 1875, and had no children.



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