Collins Street in the suburb of Addington in Christchurch

Collins Street – Information from the library website – Named after Wilkie Collins (1824-1889 – Collins was an English author. -One of the “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of the Sydenham Borough Council on 19 January 1880. Originally intended to be named Wilkie Collins Street. –

A small amount of information from the library website. This street has Salvation Army hostel on it which is why there are so many down and outs in Addington. There was one old house that has been done up and it looked great. Would loved to have taken a photo of it. Another street with a mixture of new and old houses, There is a cycleway on this street and the street ends at the church in Church Square. I haven’t read any books by Wilkie Collins and the more famous works by him are The Woman in White and The Moonstone.