DetailsSignature of William Chorley of Cheltenham NSW on the flyleaf of his copy of Henry Mayhew's, 'London Labour and the London Poor', published 1864.
William Chorley was a city tailor who bought land in Cheltenham in 1890. He petitioned for a railway station and after repeated requests it was a agreed that a station should be built. It was called Cheltenham after Chorley's birth place in England.Date1864KeywordsCheltenham