Whiteleigh Ave – Named after Whiteleigh, the home in Addington of John Terras Bell (1838-1908). Bell was a land and estate agent. First appears in street directories in 1900.
I expected the library website to have had much more information about this street. It runs from Lincoln Rd and weirdly it stops just before Blenheim Rd and turns into Clarence St. You would think that it would go all the way to Blenheim Rd. This street has a real mixture of buildings. Between the railway lines and Blenheim Rd is the shopping centre Tower Junction and on the other side is various businesses.
Between the railway lines and Lincoln Rd on one side of the street has a couple of businesses, lots of older mostly wooden villas. Many of the villas look quite nice but again a couple of rundown looking ones. A couple of motels on this side plus some council housing which tends to house some of the more unsavoury type of person and is mostly men.
The other side has businesses plus a few houses. There is also an old persons home which is fairly new. There is also a church of the modern ugly type and apparently it is the church of the true Jesus. As I was walking along here I realise that there was something missing. There used to be a holiday park along here but it has gone. It was a rundown holiday park and many of the people who stayed here were long term and they couldn’t afford to rent elsewhere.
This is a very busy street traffic wise as it a main route to Riccarton plus goes to Tower Junction.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 