Pitt Avenue, Trevallyn/Riverside,
joined the list of Launceston Streets in August 1948. It came about
as a renaming of a part of Cherry Road.
It is speculated that the name may have
been a tribute to Hedley George Pitt, a former mayor of Launceston,
but when notification of the new name was published in The
Examiner it was referred to as
“Colin Pitt Avenue.” Colin Pitt had been Surveyor-General and
Secretary for Lands who, among other things, played an important role
in the building of the West Coast Road to Queenstown.
Veulalee
Avenue, which had also been part of Cherry Road came about at the
same time. Rather charmingly the reason given for the two new names
was for the convenience of residents and postal officials who had
complained of the length of the road.” Well, I suppose that is one
way to make a road shorter!
