Cramsie Crescent commences south off Oliver Street, is impassable for a while after Windeyer Place, recommences just north of Heron Street, and later becomes Glen Legh Road.
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It was named after William Augustine Cramsie (1864-1938), one of the town’s most energetic citizens.
The son of John Cramsie, one-time owner of “Glendon”, William’s ife up until January 1909 is breezily recorded in the Glen Innes Guardian:
He is a ‘perfect terror’ to work, as a friend describes him, he never knows fatigue and regularly burns the midnight oil after a hard day’s work…
“...A very high authority in the state some years ago wrote that Mr W. A. Cramsie was one of the most skilled accountants in Australia…
“However Mr Cramsie’s ideals lay among stock, and he has followed, as have his several brothers, pastoral pursuits all his life…
“As a sportsman, Mr Cramsie holds foremost position in this district. He has owned a number of racehorses… he is recognised as a real ‘good sport’. (His daughter recalled he had a special stick which he pulled out at the handle and was marked in hands to measure the height of horses.)
“It is in public life that Mr Cramsie has come most to the fore in recent years. He is a ‘perfect terror’ to work, as a friend describes him, he never knows fatigue and regularly burns the midnight oil after a hard day’s work…
“This leaning to intense energy has given him the distinction of establishing financial records in societies in which he takes most interest, …the hospital of which he has been president for three years… and during that time he has collected by his own individual effort, no less than £300 in aid of the institution.
“President of the P&A… he has at remarkably small cost done much splendid work in improving the showgrounds. Among other offices held by Mr Cramsie, president of the Wellingrove CC, vice-president of the Jockey Club, director and vice-chairman of the PP Board, director of Co-op Butter Factory, director of Marie Commonwealth Dredging Co, School of Arts Committee...”
He served as Severn Shire president and mayor of the Municipal Council.
The New England Club was built by him and named Braemore after his father-in-law’s property.
